I have been trying unsuccessfully for five days now to get freenet working. My machine is a 256MB celeron, Windows ME, and a 56K dialup modem (OK, I'm not wealthy). Freenet installed OK at first, but I couldn't get much past the YoYo page before it bogged down. "The Freedom Engine" wouldn't load at all. All I get after that is repeated "Network is busy", "couldn't connect to the network", or "data not found" errors, in about equal proportion. I created the user.js file in Mozilla's profile directory as directed (I'm on Mozilla 1.6, and couldn't find any equivalent profile option). Freenet version is 5076.
When I tried the freenet configure option, It would seem to work initially, but anytime after the first time, I would repeatedly get "error in freenet, freenet will now close" and it did. After reinstalling, now all I get is "a required DLL file MFC71.DLL was not found". I read that for modem connections it should be set up as a transient node. Without the configurator, the only way I could see to do that is to manually edit default.ini and freenet.ini and change transient to 'true' and delete the comment character. Soon I sdiscovered that freenet resets this periodically, so I question whether I really have it set. When I did get the configuration option working (at first install), you have to go to the geek page to enable setting transient on the main page, but it was still greyed out, so I couldn't set it that way. I have spent days trying to get anything at all out of freenet with no success (OK, I got to the YoYo page once, but haven't been able to since). Is this experience typical? From the archives it seems like lots of people are having similar experiences. I would like to get it working, but it seems completely unuseable. I'm wondering if the network is full of mis-configured machines like modem-based windows boxes with transient set to false. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
