On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 17:02:13 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
> My modem is on comm 4, irq 3. It does explain what needs to be
> done in the docs--which may be clear to you and guru Clarence--
> but they are a bit terse for the uninitiated like myself.
>
If it's of any help, Sam, here's what worked for me, a line added
to the top of ARACHNE.BAT:
set lsppp=/n:3 /B:57600 /V:60 /P:xxx /U:yyy /d:nnn
(xxx=password, yyy=username, nnn=number to dial)
Mind you - I'm NO guru - it's only thanks to Glenn & Clarence that I
get as far as I do!
It seems as though the port number (/n:3) has to be the first thing
on the line - I don't think it worked when it wasn't. Beware of the
problem that arises if you have a gap in your COM ports, e.g., if
you have COM1 and COM3 but nothing fitted to COM2. If this is your
situation, your best bet is to specify the port address and IRQ number
on the SET LSPPP= line, like this: /b:hhhh /i:q, where 'hhhh' is the HEX
base address of the UART and 'q' is the IRQ number.
I tried appending /l to the end of the line to get LSPPP.LOG - and
got one - but it was just strings of hex numbers, not very informative
at first glance.
It's already been pointed out on the list that the CASE of the
letters on the SET LSPPP= line is CRITICAL. I fell into that hole at
least once whilst fiddling, so I hope you'll forgive my labouring the
point!
I've also found that LSPPP seems to set two environment variables,
DNS1 and DNS2. On one occasion, they were both set to the exact same DNS
number, but other times they seem to be the 2 DNS numbers that my ISP
claims will work. DNS1 and DNS2 don't get cleared when LSPPP/Arachne has
done its stuff, so I added another 2 lines in ARACHNE.BAT at the end to
clear them.
Also, on one occasion I got a QEMM error whilst connected with
LSPPP; the machine needed the red-button treatment to get out of it.
The only problem I have now is that, when I start Arachne from Xtree
instead of a plain old DOS prompt, I get 'out of environment space'
problems, despite having the /e:1024 switch on the SHELL= line in
CONFIG.SYS. It's as though Xtree doesn't see the extra space, or
something? Clearly the SET LSPPP= uses up whatever environment space
Xtree thought there was, when ARACHNE.BAT runs.
Hope this helps!
Ron Ickse
