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Message from Steven
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Forrest Charnock wrote:
>
> I have set up dialup in Linux before 

That will help.

> and I am using a serial modem, a USRobotics 
> external 33.6 that I flashed to 56k, it works 
> fine in Ubuntu 9.04 and several versions of 
> Puppy Linux.

Excellent, no hardware issues then.

> I did edit the modem file 

I assume by that you mean eznet.conf (the first
screen in pppsetup)

> and I added the DNS server numbers 

The second screen in pppsetup.

> but there were other files 

There are no other files to edit in pppsetup.

> such as /etc/host.deny 

There is no host.deny file in BL3.

> the instructions it said to edit. 

Which instructions?  The only instructions
from pppsetup say:
-----------------------------------
ppp-on    dials your ISP 
links     starts browser
ppp-off   terminates PPP connection
-----------------------------------

It sounds to me like the pppsetup you are
running is not the BL3 pppsetup.  I can
think of two possible reasons for this:
(1) you are not running BL3; or (2) you
have installed an add-on to BL3 that has
overwritten the BL3 pppsetup.

If you give us some more details, we will
probably be able to figure out how to fix
this.

Cheers,
Steven