it came today, plugged it in, threw the script into the appropiate folder, changed modem control panel... nada - ppp panel says no dial tone detected. it does power up and I switched the cable with one I had in case it was damaged, still nothing.

so, am I just s**** outta luck or am I overlooking something simple, or is it possible it needs a driver or something...

I searched for info on it to no avail, think it's one of those cheesy give-aways from earthlink. it's a 56kflex external, labeled 'performance' and on the bottom reads 'enterprise technologies'. it had been used on the seller's old mac, don't know what kind, but he said did work. (yeah, I know, of course he said that)

thanks

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thought I'd get a faster modem for a performa 636 on ebay (to replace the $5 14k card from shreve's).

it came today, plugged it in, threw the script into the appropiate folder, changed modem control panel... nada - ppp panel says no dial tone detected. it does power up and I switched the cable with one I had in case it was damaged, still nothing.

so, am I just s**** outta luck or am I overlooking something simple, or is it possible it needs a driver or something...

I searched for info on it to no avail, think it's one of those cheesy give-aways from earthlink. it's a 56kflex external, labeled 'performance' and on the bottom reads 'enterprise technologies'. it had been used on the seller's old mac, don't know what kind, but he said did work. (yeah, I know, of course he said that)

thanks

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running os 8 and the script for that modem isn't on the install disk, the seller sent it on a floppy.

but, you just gave me a thought. I'll put the 'hayes basic' script in and see if that works. if not, I'll try without the scripts.

let you know, thanks!

ATZ <hit return>

(this should "wake-up" the modem and give a response of "OK")

AT&F <hit return>

(this is a fairly generic modem reset to get it back to factory settings, it works wonders with almost ANY modem out there, and you may even want to add it to the script as an init string. oh yeah, and it should come back as "OK")

ATI-3 <hit return>

ATI-5 <hit return>

(at least one of these should give the actual modem manufacturer and model, which if nothing else should be helpful in the future)

After doing this, try using PPP to connect again. If it still fails, trash and replace PPP and TCP/IP just to rule out an OS corruption and point to the modem being a 'tard.

thanks for the info

per your suggestion, I tried both z-term and claris on it, aside from the initial ok, no go. but I must admit I may not be thinking too clearly right now, birthday last night you see, so I'll give it another shot tomorrow. possibly try it on the other performa or the powerbook, of course they don't currently have op/trans, I have been meaning to do that<sigh>

the ppp and tcp/ip is working fine with the old 14k card, so that's most likely not the problem. sheesh, I'm getting sick of pulling it to test the new one.

as for 8.1, I'm fairly sure this particular mac (636cd) will only run up to 8.0, at least that's what my copy of the spec database (9-98) says.

thanks again
sue

hey, 666, that's my lucky number

sosumi
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If the spec database says upto 7.5.5, it will go to 7.6.1
If it says 8.5, it will do 8.6.

Ahh... the beauty of Apple upgrades...

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Yeah, anything with an 040 will run 8.1. Trust me, it's much better than 8.0.

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Very true. Gotta have at least 16 megs of RAM. 20 is better, 32+ is ideal.

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