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 To: 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!! > > > > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss