Dial up modem problems - again

[Lewis Futrell]

Did you disable ETH0?  By default, Ubuntu's DHCP uses ETH0 as its default
and when the modem dials in, it cannot get an address.

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> From: Bill Cairns [mailto:CairnsWW at eskom.co.za]
> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 3:33 AM
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> Subject: Dial up modem problems - again
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> I lost my uBuntu 5.4 completely when the power tripped in the middle of
> upgrading to 5.10.
> 
> So I installed 5.10 from scratch.
> 
> Of course, being a good IT man, I had all my important data files backed
> up.
> 
> But, being a very out of practice software man, I did not back up my
> "provider" files. Nor, being a very bad documentation man, did I document
> what I had done to get everything working in the first place. So I am now
> trying to re-engineer my solution for connecting via a dial up modem to
> the internet.
> 
> (I am using pppconfig to create the "provider" files and then pon to
> connect).
> 
> I have reached the stage where I seem to be connected to my ISP (the modem
> lights all say that I am connected anyway), but Firefox can't connect to
> anything. It looks to me as if I do not have an IP address, but I am not
> sure if I am looking in the right place.
> 
> Is there a log file somewhere that I can look at to see what is going on
> with the modem connection?
> 
> Any other suggestions? Any differences between 5.4 and 5.10 that I should
> know about in this area?
> 
> Thanks,
>   Bill
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