Trouble hooking up to Internet

[goofygraffix]

I'm having a booger of a time trying to get connected to the Internet. I'm using woody on a blue-and-white G3 350Mhz, 416MB RAM.

I can get pon to dial the number, connect, and it sounds like the server and my computer are talking, but if I try a website with either lynx or konquerer, it just sits there spinning its wheels til it finally times out after about 30 seconds. If I ping a server, I get 0 bytes received.

I've run pppconfig to use the internal modem as /dev/ttyS0. One weird thing that may or may not matter is pppconfig couldn't automatically detect the modem, so I have to set it manually. Any other modem setting and Linux says no device exists or something like that. The modem is an internal Global Village.

My ISP confirmed they use PAP. Just to be thorough, I tried CHAP but get disconnected after connection, and the chat option doesn't seem to spark any conversations, either. My ISP also said they're not doing anything unusual as far as extra settings or prelogin chats, etc.

I've tried both static and dynamic DNS, & both resolve to one of the two DNS servers my ISP uses, so it seems that part works.

I've also tried some of the other settings - default route /no default route, etc - and have looked at /etc/ppp/peers/provider & /etc/resolv.conf to make sure things are the way they're supposed to be according to the docs, but that doesn't seem to have any effect, either.

If anyone could shed some light as to what might be happening, or what I might have overlooked, please let me know. Alternately, if there's a way to query the modem to make sure it's working, that would be great, too. If there's more technical info you need, let me know and I will provide. Thanks a bunch

[{MaX}]

What's the model of your modem? Is it an internal modem or an external one?

[goofygraffix]

Actually, turns out I was doing something dumb (imagine that!). Turns out it was /dev/ttyS1 that was the modem's port, which is actually weird because that was the first one I tried and... and... *sheepishly ducks out of view*...