fedora-test-list digest, Vol 1 #267 - 31 msgs

[Ryan G.]

Hi all, long time lurker first time poster ;-)

I'm having a strange problem that I'm starting to think MIGHT be fedora
related.  I am able to connect to the internet fine via eth dhcp but
since my fedora upgrade (to test 3 .95) dialup is nonfunctional and
acting very weird.  Previously I was able to connect at work over the
phone line just fine.

It's a pctel winmodem but it has worked quite well prior to fedora (and
I'm using a custom kernel not the fedora one and the same one that
worked before).

The modules are loaded and wvdial works, the modem dials, connects and
pppd is started, ppp0 is listed by ifconfig and pppd is running. 
/etc/host.conf is setup to contain order hosts,bind... /etc/hosts
contains 127.0.0.1 localhost ruin... similar settings are contained in
/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles... /etc/resolve.conf contians the ip
addresses of my isp's nameservers... password and login names are all
verified BUT I'm unable to get to any external ip addresses.  I've
tried pinging www.yahoo.com to test but I get a really odd error ->

>From ch-tnt002.chicago.lightfirst.net (216.105.92.101) icmp_seq=0 Dest
Unreachable, Bad Code: 9

over and over... the weird thing is ch-tnt002.chicago.lightfirst.net
seems to be my isp's dns which is setup in /etc/resolve.conf
/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/resolve.conf

Here's why I think it may be related to fedora (besides the fact that
things worked before upgrading), I'm unable to edit (New, Edit or
Delete actually) any entry in the Hosts tab using
redhat-config-network.  The IP, Name and Aliases fields are blank and
cannot be changed.  Clicking New brings up the "Add / Edit Hosts entry"
dialog box but filling in the fields and clicking ok leaves me with
nothing, no changes stick.

So anyway how could tcp work over ethernet via dhcp but not via dialup?

I'm not a newbie but I'm very confused/frustrated by this one.  Any
other dialup users experience this in fedora?  Or is this a problem
with my configuration.  Any thoughts or proposed solutions are
appreciated.

btw, netstat seems to indicate there is NOT a connection present.

thanks a ton in advance,
-ry

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