I can't get on the internet with Ubuntu

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Charlie Young wrote:

> A friend helped me compile the connection for dial up connection. We got
> on the internet just fine. 

Out of curiosity, is there a reason you're not just using the dial up
connection manager in the gnome network manager?

What sort of modem is it?

> After he left I tried to get on the internet and it no longer worked. I
> did it exactly the way my friend showed me. I clicked on terminal. Then I
> typed in sudo martian_modem and pressed enter.. I'm asked for my pass
> word and I typed it in and pressed enter again. Then it says martian:
> info: Your port is /dev/ttySM0. It looked exactly like when I was with my
> friend and successful connected to the internet except for it didn't
> connect. 

Could you start it again and give us the output of the following commands:

/sbin/ifconfig
/sbin/route -n 
cat /etc/resolv.conf

The first should confirm that a ppp0 interface exists and tell us your ip
address.  The second will tell you where traffic is being routed to by
default (if you also have a network card it could be trying to access the
net via that).  The third shows us your DNS settings.

Gavin