Stephane, If I am not mistaken, the pppdrc.cfg file is created by Arachne, and should not be modified manually. I think that if you rename the file to something like, pppdrc.saf and run Arachne, it will send you immediately to Setup.
I started using Arachne on a machine similar to yours, a 486DX33, using version 1.41 and used version 1.48 on it until very recently when I put 1.68 on it. (I upgraded the 486DX33 to a 586/133 using Evergreen's CPU upgrade several years ago.) I found a tremendous speed increase by putting my Temp, Cache, and cache.idx files on a ram disk with HD thrashing going from a lot to zero. I found a much greater speed increase by installing (as COM2) a serial card which uses a 16550 UART. Anything less than a 16550 UART will only allow 9600 bps connection speed. (Motherboard COM2 was disabled.) My modem is an external 28.8 Practical Peripherals modem. I have not yet put 1.70R3 on the 586/133, but it runs very fast on a P5/75 machine. I don't think that you can access the Internet using Arachne thru AOL, however, you can access the Internet using Arachne using [Classic] Compuserve. On November 26th both of Compuserve's nameservers went down and it was about 4 days before we found new nameserver DNSes that would work. Naturally, Compuserve did not tell users or their support personnel what the workaround was --- we had to find out from other users. Glad that you got connected! Il ne pas de quois! (If I remember my high school French from 50 years ago.) HTH Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona Stephane Roth wrote: . > Hi Arachne addicts ! . > As I predicted , but sooner than had believed , I am hereby reporting . > full success with fixing my Arachne . I just doed it on a 486 DX2 , now I . > am confident I can do it again with the 286 which was the intended . > 'target' :~) . > Wish to thank you again for greeting the newbie so warmly ; it gave me the . > incentive to look at that thing again , and here we are ! . > What was I doing wrong ? In a word I must had messed up the com port . > settings in the ppdrc.cfg file and/or the arachne.cfg - probably both ! ( must say . > this 'puter . > has its modem hooked up to a rather unusual Com 3 / IRQ 7 / 3e8 ) . > Now just one or 2 minor questions : . > - In the sample Arachne.cfg there is room for an "AltNameServer" , not so . > in the "ppdrc.cfg" , or may I add it there too ? . > - Maybe many of you have got multiple POP servers , how do you manage . > to poll more than one ? ( Must say I haven't tried the pop/smtp with . > arachne yet) . > Can you switch the POP settings while connected ? Can you automate the . > process ? . > - Can you configure Arachne for an AOL connection ? ( OK !!! just kidding . > :) . > - My Arachne here is version # 1.50 "stable release candidate" 5/7/99 . . > Any objection to staying with it as is ? . > - Merci ... . > -- . > Steph'
