Hello, all . . . I made a serious blunder: although there was nothing wrong with my venerable rig, which has a Cyrix chip that's half-way between a 486 and an early Pentium, I bought a new one with a 20-G drive and lots of bells and whistles. Most of the routine installations (including System Commander which allows me to seamlessly boot in MS-DOS 6.22, DR-DOS or LINUX) gave no problems, but telecommunications are a disaster. I will not use @#$%^&*(* "Windows", so I bought a 56 PCI modem (Archtek SmartLink 5634PCV) that was supposed to work with DOS and LINUX. The only thing that works is Procomm Plus, which is hardly ever used. PEGASUS for DOS, Arachne 1.66 and Nettamer do not. Jude, Sam, Dale, Martin-I, Martin-S and Ian all kindly made suggestions, but so far none of them have worked. Jude suggested putting the "wake-up" program in each of the .BAT's, so we did that, even though it's also in the AUTOEXEC.BAT. Dale suggested trying the LSPPP dialer/packet driver instead of the DOSPPPD I had been using on the old rig. We did, with no effect. Sam told me a bit about Nettamer, so we down-loaded a copy. Here's what came up on the screen: LADSoft PPP Packet Driver Ver 0.75 Copyright (c) LADSoft Dialing...Connecting to network...Authenticating...Authenticating...Authenticating... and so forth until we terminated the attempt. Jude said "you may not have a correct modem initialization string in both sets of programs in the proper spot." If by that he means the string of digits that the ISP gave us to insert, we triple-checked them, and anyhow they worked in Arachne 1.66 in the old rig. If there's something else involved I don't know anything about it. Ian said that there had been some discussion of DOSPPPD and LSPPP on an Internet news group demon.ip.support.pc, but we didn't find anything there. Martin-S mentioned EPPPD.EXE, but I have somehow lost the note, so I don't know if it's something we need to check out. As I said in an earlier note, I'm reasonably proficient in DOS (I used to think I was an expert, now I'm not so sure) and am slowly and painfully getting to understand REAL Linux, that's to say without the %^&*(2354 "GUI". That'll take more time than it used to. I'm still sentient, but my 82-year old brain is slower to learn than it used to be. If anyone has any suggestions as to what we do next, I'd surely appreciate it. Carl.
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