Dan in AZ wrote: > Sounds like configuration of your browser to work with the connection - as > long as you say you are connected. In Netscape 4.xx it is under Edit, then > Preferences..., then set your Identity and Mail Servers correctly. You must > have a different profile for each connection - different for your dialup and > your DSL. Do a search in your finder for "profile manager". Open it and set > your profile. > > Mine is set to my login name on Earthlink, my password that I gave to > Earthlink, and the other settings that Earthlink gives: mine was > mail.earthlink.net > > I have a dialup connection with earthlink. A DSL connection should not be > that different except for maybe the outgoing mail server name. You can access > the same email account for each profile, but you need a different "outgoing > mail server" for each type of connection, I'll bet. Hope this helps. If not > let me know what your luck is and what you have tried. > > Dan in AZ > > William Damkoehler wrote: > >> >> I have no trouble making the Earthlink connection via my modem card. The >> problem is that no browser will work once the connection is made. Not >> Internet Explorer, iCab or Netscape.
Thanks to all who have pitched in with suggestions. Here's the latest: After four Earthlink Support e-mails which didn't help, I used their live chat option. The guru gave me Name Server Addresses to add into my TCP/IP control panel. (I was set up to use PPP.) The addresses given to me were totally different from the ones the Earthlink Wizard had configured. Anyway, I restart the 'puter and dial up, make the connection (as usual) and ... no fix. Explorer won't browse, iCab won't browse, Netscape won't browse. The guru gives me a link to a FreePPP dialer which I install and configure. I dial up using FreePPP, make the connection and ... no fix. Explorer won't browse, iCab won't browse, Netscape won't browse. Then, for the heck of it, I reconfigure TCP/IP back to PPP, dial up and, LO AND BEHOLD - IE BROWSES! Ditto iCab & Netscape. And I notice that the TCP/IP panel now shows an IP address in the proper field. I checked the activity log and it reveals that that was the first time in over fifty connections when an IP address showed up. I tempt fate: I restart the 'puter, dial up ... NO BROWSE! I reconfigure to FreePPP, YES BROWSE! Back to PPP, YES BROWSE again! So it seems that, for whatever reason, sometimes a connection will deliver and IP address and I can browse and sometimes it won't and I can't. Are the gods toying with me...? -Bill -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
