Thank you to all who wrote to my mail.
I tried some suggestions, but I must add a line to the following
paragraph:
Dear list-members,
Arachne (several versions) connects to the net only in the DOSbox
of Win98SE on my Pentium133. When I "restart in DOS mode" it dials, I get
(show terminal window Yes):
CONNECT 45333/LAPM/V42.bis
Autologin enabled
Trying SLIP/PPP
and that is the end of it.
No that is not the end. The end is a message saying: "Link is down.
Driver not installed".
In the last list-digest I did read from Clarence Verge to set
UseTerminal NO
Autologin NO
It made no difference to me.
+ BUT there happen very strange things with
+ arachne.cfg. I tried "exec epppd" and "ppp" in one of the "Answere lines".
+ It did not help, but I did find signs like the ones you got in earlier
+ times as PPP-packets on the screen in one of the "Waiting for" lines.
+ As I tried the Initstring for my external modem Windows uses another
+ strange thing happened. The initstring is very long and as I tried to
+ use it with Arachne I got halfway down its length a "No Carrier"
+ message. In arachne.cfg I did find in one of the "Waiting for" lines:
+ " se terminal YES"......it lacks the U.
+ Who does write into the arachne.cfg? Is that the reason why the
+ ppp-driver does not start?
Changing the mouse of COM1 with the modem on COM2 does not help.
portinfo.exe finds my modem on COM2 but says it is a fax-modem with
2400baud. It is in fact a V90-modem and can K56flex too. DEBUG gives the
correct (2f8 COM2, 3f8 COM1) addresses.
To make it a bit more complicated: Arachne works with my ISP, my
loginname and my password on Guenter Bietzigs Pentium3 in the DOSbox of
Win98 and in "restart in DOS-mode". Why not on mine? Could it be a
simple thing like a broken wire?
Winmodem: Glenn suggests target practising. But I own a 486/20 with
DOS6.22 on it and Arachne connects fine with the net with my modem. So I
think it is no Winmodem. This old computer allows only 19200bps
TCP/IP-statistics confirm that.
Or Bottom: If I first make C:\Arachne>miniterm and after it
C:\Arachne>epppd I dont get new error messages.
I tried additional \w in Response lines (two and three). I did not
notice any difference.
I belive this PPP-driver does not start, or its signals do not go to the
modem. The modem has two lights: TxD and RxD and they blink...... while
waiting for the PPP-driver to work?
I made "+" signs in front of the text about the "strange things" which
happen to my config. Could this writing into the arachne.cfg misplace
the ppp-command and the driver does not start?
Yesterday I experieced another strange thing. I used Arachne in the
WinDOSbox to fetch mails. Then I left Arachne with <alt+X> and tried to
start AOL also to fetch mails. But AOL complained and said: COM2 (where
my modem is) is in use! I had to restart Windows and then could go to
AOL (excuse me using AOL, but it was my first contact with the net).
I belive that means Arachne does not clear out properly or leaves
something in a changed mode. If this happens in DOS could that block the
PPP-driver?
Excuse me, you know a dumb person can ask more questions than thousand
wise men can answere, or something to that effect.
Regards
Gerald
-- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
