On: Wed, 29 May 2002 07:00:06 -0500, Sam wrote:
> Try connecting with your ISP outside of Arachne. You can use
> NETDIAL or COMTOOL as a dialer and you can use either EPPPD or
> LSppp as a packet driver. To load LSppp as a packet driver only
> and to establish the DNS numbers, load LSppp with no parameters.
>
On Wed, 29 May 2002 07:49:20 -0400 (EDT), Howard wrote:
> I don't know anything about PCMCIA modems, but I have been playing
> around of late with a parallel port pocket modem (also "software
> driven") on an old 386 laptop, and am unable to load EPPPDD at all.
> However, both etherppp and LSPPP (new version .80) work well and I
> am running some smaller Internet apps.
>
Thanks to both of you for the suggestions. I went off and located
LSPPP 0.8 and even read the instructions that came with it! Running it
on its own, I could get it to put all the essential information into
IP-UP.BAT, including DNS numbers. However, I simply could not get
Arachne to play ball with it. No fetching messages, no www pages - it
wouldn't even hang up properly. Trying it on my fully Arachne-working
office 486, it doesn't work there, where I know the original
bog-standard Arachne set-up works.
I went back to the LSPPP site and found two other things: LSPPPCFG
and also a patch for the CORE.EXE of Arachne V1.70r3. I followed all the
instructions for both and tried connecting again. Same result. I spent a
few hours messing about with this and it doesn't seem to be going
anywhere for me.
I'm beginning to think that this laptop is about ripe for an
installation of Linux....
Thanks again for your input,
Gerald.
