Hi, Carl,
The following is excerpted from the Opera Help
screens. I hope some part of it helps.
<excerpt>
Opera cannot connect to the web. What's wrong?
If Opera doesn't connect to the web right away...
<snip LAN-specific instructions ...>
Windows uses a communications module (winsock)
to accomplish Internet connections.
This file is either called winsock.dll (16bit)
or wsock32.dll (32bit). You should have only one
file with this name on your computer. If you use
Win 3.1x, make sure you only have this one copy
of winsock.dll on your disk (usually the one that
came with the dialer) and make sure it is in the
path statement of your AUTOEXEC.BAT.
Rename or delete all other winsock.dll copies
from your computer.
Once you have followed these steps, you should
not have any more problems, because a) Windows
knows where to find the module, and there are no
conflicts with other winsock.dll's on your disk.
There are several other things that can potentially
hinder Opera from loading websites or displaying
them properly. These include:
Cookies and Referrer Logging --
many sites require them
Offline Browser Mode -- make sure it's not
ticked (File Menu)
URL Redirections (Cache Preferences) --
make sure they are not ticked
Proxy Settings -- untick them or fill in the
proper proxy name servers
Synchronous DNS -- If you use the new Microsoft
Winsock 2.x (comes with Windows 98), you may
have to ENABLE this in order to make Opera
load documents properly
</excerpt>
Regards,
Garry
Today, Carl Wheeley asked:
> Thanks, Bernie, Garry Hamilton, Margaret Chesler, and Chad
> Fernandez. I still haven't gotten Opera 3.60 to work with Trumpet
> Winsock 2.1f, but following your various suggestions, it appears
> that I am closer. Here's where I stand now.
>
> 1. I have taken out the path=c:\trumpwsk from the autoexec.bat
> file, and indeed it seems to make no difference when it is
> removed. No, I don't use the same Winsock.dll with Opera/Trumpet
> as I do with IE. (I re-name Winsock.dll in IE when I'm trying
> Opera/Trumpet and the opposite when I'm running IE.)
>
> 2. I am now running TCPMan before opening Opera. But when I
> double-click on TCPMan I get the message, "Invalid Path," "! The
> working directory is invalid." If I click OK to that, the dialing
> script begins: initializing modem, dialing (the IP's phone),
> connected; now logging in as (my user ID). The final message: My
> IP address = xxx.xxx.xxx.xx.
>
> Bernie, I gather from what you say that at this point I have
> successfully logged-on and that my user name and password have
> been verified.
>
> 3. I then minimize Trumpet Winsock and load Opera. Upon entering
> a www address, I get the same "! Network problem" message that I
> was getting previously when dialing from within Opera. Darn!
>
> Any Ideas anyone?
>
> (And, Margaret, the help pages at Operasoftware.com won't open
> with my version of IE. I can get to them with the computers at my
> local library, but that's a pain. Another thing that won't work
> any more--it used to--with IE 3.02a and my computer is logging in
> at Hotmail; that's apparently some security problem that the
> Hotmail support people don't know how to fix.)
>
> Carl Wheeley
> Lusby, MD
>
>
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