> If kppp dials in with my modem under root no problems. However if I
> dial in under my username the modem dials and seems to connect but
> mozilla mail doesn't download my mail. It comes up with a message
> resolving host pop.ihug.co.nz and stays there and doesn't download my
> mail . I have changed my permisions on /dev/modem and made sure I have
> the correct permissions for Mozilla mail and it also seems I have the
> same problem web browsing does anybody know what files I would have to
> change the permissions on. It may be a stupid question but I don't know.
What this sounds like is a problem resolving if you dial in as a user,
not as root.
To test this, try connecting to the Internet as your username, and open
up a terminal and issue the following command:
/bin/ping -c 5 202.27.184.3
This will send 5 ICMP ping packets to one of xtra's nameservers (which
you should be able to ping from anywhere).
If this doesn't work, it either means that your ISP is brokenly
firewalling ICMP, or that you haven't in fact connected.
If this does work fine, then the problem is probably that your resolver
isn't being set correctly when you log in as your user. If you could
issue the following commands (while you are dialed in as your user) and
give us the output it would be good
ls -la /etc/resolv.conf
cat /etc/resolv.conf
