Modem connects but can't surf

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Author: Dennis Kibbe
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Subject: Modem connects but can't surf
I've been trying to troubleshoot a problem on a friend's Toshiba laptop loaded
with SuSE 8.0

PPP will make a dialup connection to his ISP, Earthlink, but Konqueror doesn't
seem to recongnise that a connection to the Internet is there.

At Bill Lindley's suggestion I had him do a "route add default ppp0" thinking
that the default route was set to eth0. The modem is a Xircom ethernet/modem
combo PCMCIA card. No luck.

Where else should I be looking? What logs should I ask him to e-mail me?

Vielen dank im Voraus fuer einige Hinweise,

Dennis Kibbe