On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 06:50:11PM -0800, Bill Polly wrote: > 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.
Don't expect good performance from a modem. Run a permanent node if you can keep it online ~ 24x7. If you pay by the minute, or you can only connect a few hours a day for any other reason, run transient. > > 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". There is some work going on with the windows installer at the moment... > > 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. I have no idea what's going on here, forwarding to the development list for input from people who might. > 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). Try installing Frost ( http://jtcfrost.sf.net/ ). That will request various small files in the background, as well as being useful and resilient to network failure. This may help your node learn. You might also consider switching to the "unstable" network... > > 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. We hardly ever hear the success stories. This is quite typical for software support. :) Having said that the network has some problems - but it's not as bad as it has been. -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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