Please help me, for I am about to lose my rag.
I have recently aquired my first mac, and it came with OS9 and OSx installed on the partitined hard disk. As you can see, I can connect to the internet well with OS9.1, in fact I rate it over the PC after only three days usage...
OSX on the other hand is nowhere near as cosy.
When I try to connect, all that happens is that a dialog box comes up and says "cannot detect/initialise PPP". It does not seem to want to talk to the modem. On top of this, I cannot seem to change any of the settings in the network part of system prefs. even when I click on the helpfully placed "save" tab... so the connections are there and do not change.
I think that the problem might be that I have entered a name in the optional ISP name box, and that OSX regards this as looking for a server or something, but as I cannot change or add any new connections, I can't get rid of this to see what effect it is really having.
Any suggestions and things would quite possibly save my mortal soul.
Ta,
S.
I have recently aquired my first mac, and it came with OS9 and OSx installed on the partitined hard disk. As you can see, I can connect to the internet well with OS9.1, in fact I rate it over the PC after only three days usage...
OSX on the other hand is nowhere near as cosy.
When I try to connect, all that happens is that a dialog box comes up and says "cannot detect/initialise PPP". It does not seem to want to talk to the modem. On top of this, I cannot seem to change any of the settings in the network part of system prefs. even when I click on the helpfully placed "save" tab... so the connections are there and do not change.
I think that the problem might be that I have entered a name in the optional ISP name box, and that OSX regards this as looking for a server or something, but as I cannot change or add any new connections, I can't get rid of this to see what effect it is really having.
Any suggestions and things would quite possibly save my mortal soul.
Ta,
S.