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In message <7r3ddj$dvn$1@news8.svr.pol.co.uk>
          "Robin Moffatt" <rnm@cheerful.com> wrote:

> (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.

I think you might need to use PPP rather than SLIP although I am by no means
an expert.

I have freeserve working fine here using a RPC.  I am just using Acorn's
internet stack (as included with new !Boots I think) with Socketeer to dial. 
Once you've got that going you can pick mail/news fetchers and a web browser
(ie POPstar, Newshound and then Browse/Fresco/WebsterXL/whatever)

So unless you want to use Acornet for some other reason I suggest you give
Acorn !Internet/Socketeer a try.  I think details can be found here

http://www.richie.ukgateway.net/internet/internet.html

or I can send details of my setup on request.

HTH.
Carl