OT: Verizon DSL Software on iMac?

2003-01-29 Thread Jim Schulze
A friend is having huge problems getting the software from the Verizon DSL CDROM to work on her iMac OS9. Verizon has been unable to help, and I can not see where she might be going wrong. Anyone have any experience getting this to work that might get me started with an idea to help her get dsl

Re: OT: Verizon DSL Software on iMac?

2003-01-29 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 29/01/03 07:32, Jim Schulze at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend is having huge problems getting the software from the Verizon DSL CDROM to work on her iMac OS9. Verizon has been unable to help, and I can not see where she might be going wrong. Anyone have any experience getting this

Re: OT: Verizon DSL Software on iMac?

2003-01-29 Thread Anne Judge
A friend is having huge problems getting the software from the Verizon DSL CDROM to work on her iMac OS9. Is she connecting directly to the DSL modem? If so, does Verizon's DSL use PPPoE? I TOTALLY screwed up OS 8.6 by installing Enternet to access SNET DSL via PPPoE. A system reinstall and

Re: OT: Verizon DSL Software on iMac?

2003-01-29 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 29/01/03 10:44, Anne Judge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend is having huge problems getting the software from the Verizon DSL CDROM to work on her iMac OS9. Is she connecting directly to the DSL modem? If so, does Verizon's DSL use PPPoE? I TOTALLY screwed up OS 8.6 by installing

Re: OT: Verizon DSL Software on iMac?

2003-01-29 Thread Anne Judge
Yes, AFAIK, Verizon uses PPPoE. . . doesn't the system (specifically the TCP/IP control panel) has support for that kind of connection? OS X definitely has it. Other than that, you might need a little application that will initiate the PPPoE connection, but that should be pretty much it. OS X

Re: OT: Verizon DSL Software on iMac?

2003-01-29 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 29/01/03 12:13, Anne Judge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, AFAIK, Verizon uses PPPoE. . . doesn't the system (specifically the TCP/IP control panel) has support for that kind of connection? OS X definitely has it. Other than that, you might need a little application that will initiate the

Re: OT: Verizon DSL Software on iMac?

2003-01-29 Thread Jim Schulze
On Wednesday, Jan 29, 2003, at 11:31 US/Central, Laurent Daudelin wrote: On 29/01/03 12:13, Anne Judge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, AFAIK, Verizon uses PPPoE. . . doesn't the system (specifically the TCP/IP control panel) has support for that kind of connection? OS X definitely has it.

Re: OT: Verizon DSL Software on iMac?

2003-01-29 Thread Sephee
You might want to try MacPOET. It's some kind of TCP/IP extension and I think it might be a shareware product. Mac OS 9 sucks when it comes to broadband as I learned while trying to get my girlfriend's mother's Verizon DSL service after she upgraded to 9. Verizon told her that they did not

Re: OT: Verizon DSL Software on iMac?

2003-01-29 Thread Sephee
You also might be able to find a licensed copy if you can get a valid user ID and password from another DSL company such as Earthlink or Stargate. On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 10:34 PM, Sephee wrote: You might want to try MacPOET. It's some kind of TCP/IP extension and I think it

Re: OT: Verizon DSL Software on iMac?

2003-01-29 Thread Jim Schulze
On Wednesday, Jan 29, 2003, at 11:31 US/Central, Laurent Daudelin wrote: On 29/01/03 12:13, Anne Judge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, AFAIK, Verizon uses PPPoE. . . doesn't the system (specifically the TCP/IP control panel) has support for that kind of connection? OS X definitely has it.

Re: OT: Verizon DSL Software on iMac?

2003-01-29 Thread Clark Martin
At 10:34 PM -0500 1/29/2003, Sephee wrote: You might want to try MacPOET. It's some kind of TCP/IP extension and I think it might be a shareware product. Mac OS 9 sucks when it comes to broadband as I learned while trying to get my girlfriend's mother's Verizon DSL service after she upgraded to 9.