It's been a long long while since I posted anything, so this is as good a time as any.

heh heh.

On with the question:

I recently (read: day before yesterday) installed Red Hat 9 on my test box. The box came with an internal modem. Now, since previous experience with Linux has shown me that internal modems aren't usually supported ( the whole winmodem thing comes to mind ) I decided to get me an external modem. Sneaking into my friends house I unplugged his U.S. Robotics 56K modem, and then inserted my internal modem into his PC. heh heh sneaky sneaky. He knows now, though.

On startup, the Hardware detection tool in linux (forgot the name) noticed the modem, and installed it as a Generic Modem (External).

Logged in as root, fired up X Windows and set up a connection using KDE's dailer ( KPPP, I think it is ). Probing the modem got back results, a bunch of ACKs accomplished or some such.

Now heres the issue; the connection can be esablished. The modem dails in the number, it makes those funny dial-up noises, and it gets assigned an IP address. But it ends there. I am unable to ping any address. Mozilla goes nowhere. IRC doesn't connect. Nothing.

Any ideas on what is going on here?

Is this information enough?