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<DIV>Please someone help me.</DIV>
<DIV>I have a very serious problem with my Internet connection.</DIV>
<DIV>I try to connect to the Internet with kppp and everything is ok (I mean that I am really connected to the Internet: I hear noises </DIV>
<DIV>from modem and, in the end, I see the icon that appers when you're connected to the Internet). The problem is that when I </DIV>
<DIV>try to use some network application (as Opera, Mozilla, ThunderBird and so on) they don't see the network I tried also with </DIV>
<DIV>the “ping” command and I had the same result. What I have to do to let my applications see the network?? Please help me </DIV>
<DIV>'cause I really don't know what to do. In the past I already had this problem (for istance when I was using Linux Mandrake) </DIV>
<DIV>but I could overcome it just installing “dip” package but I see that Linux Fedora Core 2 doesn't have it.</DIV>
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<DIV>Someone told me that I've to check my “host.conf” and “hosts” file located in \etc. I tried to do it but I can't see anything </DIV>
<DIV>wrong. Anyway, I am going to write in this email the structure of them so you can help and tell me if something is wrong with </DIV>
<DIV>it:</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><U>host.conf</U></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV>order hosts,bind</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><U>hosts</U></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV>127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost</DIV>
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<DIV>As you can see, both of them have only one line.</DIV>
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<DIV>My operative system is Linux Fedora Core 2 and I am using Kppp to connect to the Internet. Please someone help me </DIV>
<DIV>cause I really need to use Internet from Linux. </DIV>
<DIV>Thanks to everybody.</DIV>
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<DIV>Marte</DIV></BODY></HTML>