Unable to connect to net

[Keith Smith]

I seem to recall something about setting a higher timeout value under PPP???

Maybe someone more experience can shed some light on this?

Sorry I couldn't help more,
Keith



----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Martin <mazdaracer@earthlink.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 12:15 PM
Subject: Unable to connect to net


> Happy New Year to all!!!
>
> My main system (desktop) is having problems connecting to the net.  The
> desktop is an AMD500 w/128MB, 20GB HDD, Acceex 56K fax/voice modem,
> Voodoo2000 AGP and a few other items.
>
> Loaded Mandrake 7.1 (which is what I'm using on the company laptop right
> now). All appears well. I installed  'ppp-2.4.0-3mdk.i586.rpm' to get
> rid of the 'pppd died unexpectedly' error I was receiving.
>
> I dial the ISP (Earthlink), looks good, appears to connect ok, then
> launch Netscape. But Netscape never connects in it's default
> configuration to the netscape home page.  I'm going to try the 7.2 later
> this week to see if it's any different.
>
> Has me really confused!  BTW, I downloaded the 4.76 Netscape and
> uninstalled the 4.73 version and no difference.
>
> Thanks again out there!!
>
>
>
>
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