I have an old Mac -- a lime clamshell iBook -- still running OS 9 (9.2.2, to be exact).
At home in Germany, I access the Internet via DSL -- T-Online, to be exact. I have an airport card and airport, so I access the Internet via wireless. However, pre-airport, I plugged the T-Online DSL modem directly into my computer (and still have to do this sometimes). So, no problem connecting to DSL at home.
Now, I'm in Afghanistan, and my hotel provides free Internet access. It's a DSL line. I connect it straight into my DSL/ethernet port (with T-Online, I first run it into the modem they provide, and *then* my machine). For the Afghanistan connection, no password is needed. For everyone else here at the hotel (all IBM Clone PC users), it's been "plug and play." However, my computer just can't quite connect. My computer sees the connection, tries to connect, but fails, with the message "the connection unexpectedly quit). Something -- or the lack of something -- is preventing my computer from making the final connection.
If you are running OS 9 and accessing the Internet via DSL / Ethernet, I need to know how your Internet control panels set up, to see what it is I'm lacking or configuring wrong. Specifically:
1) what do you have selected under the "Modem" control panel?
(I suspect this could be where my problem lies, that I'm lacking the right choice for this control panel; other than actual dial up modems and the T-Online ethernet connection, I have no other choices. )
2) what do you have selected under your TCP/IP control panel?
(Under "connect via", I've tried "Ethernet built-in" with "configure" set to "Using the DHCP Server", with "802.3" checked or unchecked; and tried "connect via" with "PPP" and "Using PPP Server.")
3) what do you have selected under your AppleTalk control panel?
(I have "Ethernet built-in" and I'm pretty sure this is correct)
4) how do you have your "Remote Access" control panel configured?
(the choices are "registered user" and "guest." As no longin name nor password are required, I've chosen "guest". But I can't connect unless I put something under "Number." At home, the number is 1. Here, I've tried every number, 0 - 9, and none have worked)
Any assistance would be hugely appreciated.

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