Gunner wrote:

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Eventually it times out and says Unable to connect to bla bla.com or
whatever I was trying to open..but thats all

I open the details window of the PPP prog...and in the Received
box..it (received) incriments higer every so often..but the transmit
window..normally shows it stalled at 148 packets. And there she stays.

I was thinking this was something unique to my box...but today, I
farted around with two completly different boxes..a Compaq 700, and a
CopperMine clone.

All do the same thing. Ive tried every browser configureation known
to me..etc etc

Every thing works just hunky dorey if I set up a proxy on another
Winblows machine, set the Linux browsers to the proper proxy
Aha! A Clue!

settings..then I can go whereever I want. Upload, down load,
newsgroups bla bla bla..

Ive run off of cds, done full hd installs..the freaking works... for
about 7 months now off and on. Id get ****ed, and use it for a
server..then curiosity gets me by the shorthairs..and I try again.

Sometimes..I do notice the activity light on the switch blinking a bit
more often than normal when Im trying to connect. Like its trying to
surf the local network rather than the internet..but not alll the
time.

What the hell am I doing wrong???????

I feel your pain. I assume you've stepped through the _How to hook up
PPP_ document; you state that you get logged in. I finally dumped two
ISPs because they did *something* to their machines that broke my linux
setup that had worked for years. The NT weenies that worked there
couldn't tell me what happened, nor could they tell me what I had to do
to fix it ("we only support windows").

I was even in the main office of one ISP, complaining that I couldn't
get a PPP connection, I could only get a shell (which is *so* *wrong* it
isn't funny). AND THEY WERE ABLE TO DUPLICATE MY PROBLEM, AND DIDN'T
KNOW HOW TO FIX IT!

I finally came to the suspicion that someone had decided that the cure
for the insecurities of using M$ for an ISP server could be cured by
disabling tcp/ip and only allowing netbooey connections. This accounted
for all the facts, and pointed me to a fix.

Try another ISP, one that publicly supports linux. Worked for me.

later
co