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need help with dialup modem on iBook

Aug 15, 2005 2:22PM PDT

So I've been out of touch for a few days...so I come home and the cable modem is out due to maintenence for the next few days ( read a drunk took out a few poles and the cable company is in no hurry ) and I go to connect via dial up as I keep a back up account that my mom piggybacks off of...anyway, I click connect on the menue bar and it dials through but neither Safari nor Firefox can find a server. I shut everything down and restart as My iBook had been running for at least 10 days and try again...same story. I restart again...fix permissions then go to system prefs - network - internal modem - PPP screen and click on "dial now..." which brings up the connection box...I dial - it connects - the browser refuses to find any server...

Ive done this several times now and same story every time. I also noticed that when the connection box comes up there are 2 more asterisks in the password box than there are in the the password box in the system preferences/network/ppp screen. whether I correct this or not the iBook still dials and connects but again I get the no server found message. It's not the dial up since I'm typing this right now on a windows gaming machine right now!

Any advice ?

I'm running a 6 month old iBook with os 10.3.9 and ussually connect via airport express and a belkin 54 wifi router conected to a cable modem but I turned the airport card off when trying to connect via dial up.

grim

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Dial up
Aug 15, 2005 9:59PM PDT

you must have something set incorrectly for this not to work.
Check ALL the settings against the ones in the Gaming machine. Safari and Firefox are not the least bit concerned how you get on the net, be it dial up or cable.
However, you may have to set the network settings again as it may be that the browsers are not finding any Domain Name Servers out there because the line is either not filled in or you are not getting that information back from your ISP.
No find DNS = No find servers.

Check again

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I have not changed anything...
Aug 16, 2005 12:57AM PDT

from the last time I used it which , admitedly was a few months ago.

also, is it normal for the network pass word box to show my 8 character password but when I click dial now... the internal modem window shows my password as 10 characters?

grim

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Yes,
Aug 16, 2005 4:27AM PDT

that is normal. Even if you entered a 4 letter password, the password box would show 10.
If you are actually connecting to your ISP, something HAS to have changed in the months since you last used dial-up.
As I said before, Safari and Firefox do not care how you get there. Does the Mail program work?

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no. mail refuses to work as well
Aug 16, 2005 6:23AM PDT

I will call up my dial up ISP and ask if something has changed for their apple users and report back when I get a chance.

grim

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OK,
Aug 16, 2005 10:25AM PDT

Keep in touch


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just to update
Aug 23, 2005 11:33AM PDT

been too busy to call my dial up isp ... I just cleared all original info in system networking and typed it back in the way it originally was and it works now... who knows ? I know I upgraded the os from the apple site a few times since the last time I used it so something may have corrupted the original settings.

Hey... bit of interesting news. I am going back to work on an associates degree( to add to a BA in history and art history) at a local state college focussed on graphics technology (evening classes). I had hoped to learn some new stuff and to get rid of some bad habits I'm sure I picked up over the years.... Man, how disillusioned I am by this though... one of the required classes is COMPUTER APPLICATIONS AND GRAPHICS with an emphasis on macs and their innards but the os they teach is JAGUAR ! Another class is in Adobe InDesign CS so it all won't be a total waste. Since I tested out of quite a few pre-recs and can cross train 9 hours in another field it looks like I may have 2 more degrees in about a year and a half ! Then I can truly say I am over educated and underpaid.LOL

wish me luck.

grim

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good luck
Aug 23, 2005 11:59AM PDT

Hope it works out for you


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