[Cialug] What's your modem?

[Claus]

On 8/2/2005 3:06 PM, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
>>Rocket Robin Hood wrote:
>>
>>>On Tuesday 02 August 2005 10:51, Claus wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>No offense, but I'd say the problem lies between the chair and the
>>>>keyboard.  You have to realize that Qwest doesn't support Linux since
>>>>they don't have the time and knowledge to do so.
>>>
>>>
>>>That is FINE but what perplexed me and still does is
>>>a) Upon hearing none of my browsers work, I was encouraged to try
>>>Netscape.
>>>When this worked, one might be tempted to think "oh, there's some
>>>browser
>>>configuration trick, they've probably encountered people using alternate
>>>browsers (non IE er Netscape) before and have a general idea what's
>>>wrong.
>>>Perhaps they could tell me!"
>>>DUH!
>>>
>>>I am assuming the problem lies 'between the chair and the computer'. I
>>>seek
>>>enlightenment. Let's assume I took my computer to someone's home network
>>>with
>>>a working modem, plugged it in, and it did the same thing. What would
>>>YOU do?
>>>
>>>See, if someone posted to the list something like "Uh, my burner's not
>>>working" I would at least start out with "What happens when you type
>>>cdrecord
>>>-scanbus" or "type less /etc/fstab and copy and paste that to me"
>>>or ....something. I wouldn't write an essay calling them a retard.
>>
>>I have had problems with my Actiontec DSL modem and linux clients -
>>where DNS doesn't seem to work, but works fine from a Windows PC.
>>
>>My kludge to fix this is to change the Actiontec's DHCP config to assign
>>a different DNS (like your ISP's) to the DHCP clients.
>>
>>-dc
> 
> 
> Yes. This is the issue. I solved it for me by coping a working
> /etc/resolv.conf over the bad one on ifup. I had forgotten this was an issue
> with the Actiontecs until Dave's comment. Easy fix though.

Before Rocket Robin Hood assumes that's his problem I'd recommend that 
he verifies it.  In that case connections by using IP should work while 
connections via names won't. (ie ping 209.234.64.204 vs. storm.weather.net)