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(Apologies for the slightly off-topic disa post, but I know that this
certainly used to be a very helpful group!)

Hi there,

I am trying to set up my father's RiscPC to work with Freeserve. It has been
working with Demon for 3 years without problem, but I'm buggered if I can
work out how to get it to use Freeserve.

I used to be quite happy fiddling around inside the workings of Freenet
configuration files etc etc by hand, but a year away from the Arc left me
diving for the apparently simple all-in-one Acornet.
Downloaded AcornetA but it didn't like the system, came up with a multitude
of not found files. So downloaded AcornetF v0.22. That worked fine, and
installed without [too much] problem.

But now when I dial up, it dials fine, and then does nothing. The call is
answered, but that's it. Right-clicking on SLIPdial shows no communication
between the two computers.

I seem to remember noticing something about PPP connection somewhere WRT
Freeserve. Certainly on my PC (sorry!) the DUP connection is a PPP one.
I've certainly not been presented with a PPP/SLIP choice when setting up
Acornet, although the archive did come with an installer for a Shareware PPP
driver.

So, is this PPP/SLIP problem the correct thing to be puzzling over, or am I
wasting my time looking at that? If PPP is the problem, how do I get it to
work with Acornet?

Cheers,

Robin Moffatt