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Re: [TP 755 CDV] PPP Failure
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- Subject: Re: [TP 755 CDV] PPP Failure
- From: "Paul Khoury" <pkhoury@loop.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 98 14:28:05 -0800
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- Reply-To: "Paul Khoury" <pkhoury@loop.com>
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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