[OLUG] connection failures

[Nathan Brown]

Mike:
I have read parts of these but cannot get anymore out of them or at least enough to
solve this problem.  I helped a friend set his system up the same way mine is set
up and it works ...  If i could get enough out of the documentation to get this to
work i would not be trying to get help.
Something is screwie here and I cannot find it ... maybe it's me but reading is not
getting it.

Nate

Mike McNally wrote:

> If I am not connected to the internet, and I click on a link in
> Netscape, I also get that error.  I get it because I am not properly
> connected to the internet (there is no socks problem and there are no
> perfect error messages).  The documents concerning how to achieve a
> proper internet connection are the net3 and ppp howtos.  To find them:
> find /usr/doc -iname "ppp*" -o -iname "net3*"
>
> (I'm assuming you are having trouble finding these documents)
>
> Mike
>
> Nathan Brown wrote:
> >
> > Ok! if my problem is not socks ... how come netscape is giving me the message
> > that $socks_ns is a problem?  I can't even find the program or file on my
> > system .  That is what makes it confusing.
> > thanks
> > Nate
> >
> > Mike McNally wrote:
> >
> > > Forget about socks.  It is a different way of doing firewalling (a
> > > better way) and likely has nothing to do with your problem.  When I want
> > > to know howto make ppp work, I read the PPP-HOWTO, that's why they call
> > > it a howto.  Have you read the howto?
> > >
> > > Have you read the NET3-HOWTO and gotten the right stuff in the files:
> > > hosts, HOSTNAME, host.conf, resolv.conf?  (I've asked this once before)
> > >
> > > Nate, if you are thinking that Linux is just a better Windows, it is
> > > not.  It's a unix system and the myriad of modules that comprise Linux
> > > must be tackled one by one.  Slowly but surely you will gain valuable
> > > unix skills.  The first module to tackle is ppp and some basic network
> > > stuff which is required to make a connection.
> > >
> > > In order to learn unix/linux you will be constantly refering to the
> > > installguide, the howtos, the man pages, you'll even have to learn how
> > > to use that stupid info database.  It will not be sufficient to simply
> > > read error messages that popup on your screen and ask others what it
> > > means.  A typical unix question is properly phrased like this:
> > >
> > > I have read through most of the ppp howto, scanned applicaple sections
> > > of the net3 howto and read most of the linux install guide, but I am
> > > still having problems with pppd.  With the debug and kdebug options set
> > > in the pppd options file my debugging info is as follows....
> > >         ---
> > >         ---
> > > good luck
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
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