> 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. If you can connect with LSPPP, there has to be a way to make Arachne play ball, but you have to tell Arachne through ARACHNE.CFG where everything is. I create a WATTCP.CFG and specify the path to that, but you might also be able to make it work through environment variables. Have you been able to run any other Internet application while connected through LSPPP? But you may be right about the laptop being ready for an installation of Linux. You wouldn't have to tell each application where to find the connection data, and there is a "usepeerdns" option that can be used with pppd. DOS Internet software seems to be gradually falling behind the newer protocols and server configurations. NETDIAL and COMTOOL don't work on my newer modem, but CHAT0, from EPPPD package, works.
