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Rebecca and Rowland <real-address-in-sig@rhu.barb.foobar> wrote:

> Alan Guest <alan@macropolis.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> > Well, after all this discourse, I tried switching it so that it didn't
> > just load when needed and it caused all manner of problems. I'm not
> > using FreePPP anymore and there doesn't seem to be the option for
> > 'allowing application to connect'. Even though it connects at startup,
> > it shows no improvement on the 'Load only when needed'. The symptoms
> > seem to be that a) PPP connects to Demon at startup and the modem
> > doesn't seem to function at all with PPP when it's started up in such a
> > way. The modem says it's connected but software can't find any
> > domains/nodes at all (it doesn't even send out any signal when looking
> > for them). Is it just me or does anybody actually use it in such a way
> > on PowerMac, OS8 using Apple's PPP and TCP/IP 1.2/OT 1.2?
> 
> God only knows what the problem is.  The only thing I can think of
> trying at the moment (aside from the normal re-build desktop, zap PRAM,
> run Disk First Aid and Norton Disk Doctor merry-go-round) is removing
> the TCP DNR file from your system folder and re-booting.  Sometimes it
> gets corrupted.  I doubt it'll help, but you might as well try.
> 
> Rowland.

Well, I first encountered it on my machine at home and I finally got
around it (although I didn't know how at the time) when I turned off
'allow applications to connect'. I don't think there's the option at all
on Apples PPP - it just does it whether you like it or not. We use
TCP/IP for networking at work and it works perfectly whether its loaded
all the time or only when needed (We're running amixture if OS 7.5.2 and
OS8.0)

On a different note, my Launcher has stopped working and it doesn't seem
to be the CDEV itself or the prefs as I have manually replaced these
with known working versions (to save reloading OS8 again). Anybody got
any ideas as to what things the launcher is dependent upon. It gives an
error -192.

Alan