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Re: [TP 755 CDV] PPP Failure



On Thu, 29 Jan 1998 18:36:24 GMT+1, Francois Hurter wrote:

>Hi,  
>I'm running Warp 4 FP5 on an 40M ThinkPad 755 CDV.  
>I once was happy because everything went really well with my communication    
>apps.  
>I really do not know what I did (I upgraded Mwave from 2.22 to 2.24,    
>upgraded from FP1 to FP5, but I do NOT know if it is related) but from now    
>on every time I want to access the Internet I get the following:  
>- load Mwave 28800 Modem: ok  
>- load the "Dial Other Internet Providers": ok  
>- dial a PPP connexion: I get  
>    PPP Driver Failure  
>    Connexion ERROR  
>Never had this before ?  

Have you tried InJoy?  I find it a lot better than Dial Other Provides.

>Just for the fun, I changed this provider from PPP to SLIP and the error    
>was gone (but my provider really do not offer SLIP connexion); when coming    
>back to PPP, the error was back also ?
>When I'm trying to use CIM for OS/2, the app complains about a port not ready ?  
>Any idea ?  
>Should I consider reinstalling all the TCP stuff ? and if yes, should I,    
>after reinstalling, apply FP5 again ? 

The FP fixes MMPM/2 and the base OS.  For TCP/IP, there are seperate fixes for
it.

>I have just discovered that those things above do not appear when I'm using   
>SIO.SYS instead of COM.SYS. Could this be the explanation ? 
>Of course I have a different config to start SIO. Could this also be the   
>explanation (I mean the statement order in my different config.sys - well   
>you know, they all worked well before.....) 
>  
That can make a difference as in the order you place an item, especially with IFS's
and BASEDEV's.


-- 
Paul

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