MAC 8.5 and Dial up config!!! How you do that?

[WhiteTornado]

Hi guys,

Here is the deal:

I want to learn Mac, Windows is now too familiar...
I want to get this one hooked up the net first off
I then want to get it hooked to my LAN

This is a Macintosh PowerBook 5300cs, and it has 56Mo RAM, its OS is MAC OS FU1 - 8.5. It has a PowerPort Plantinum Pro pc card with it. There is nothing wrong with it so far, just with the user who is too new to know what is going on.
I mean the modem is detected and everything seems allright. One first question I have, on the modem card it is mention that this is a 28.800 bps fax/modem and 10Base-T Ethernet adapter. The little cord that attached to it has both RJ11 and RJ45 ports. This is really a modem and a NIC in the same box?

Ok, now the problem I have is I want to set up the modem (or the NIC) but I don't know where to go to do that. When I go to the Apple menu to the Internet section, to try to get any of the obvious windows to show up, I get an error message that the disk where the data is cannot be located. From what I can understand there are some missing programs. I have set up my girl friend's old Mac Performa to go to the Net by using the PPP set up window, I cannot find any such here.

So, I concluded that I need to get the PPP client program, or the program needed to get connected, either the Dial up program or the networking program. I have no clue on how they are called or where to get them, and, sorry to say, how to install them. Any tips, links, tutorials?

Cheers! And Happy new years to all of you!

Marcel

 

[jimbopalmer]

In Macs before 7.5.3 they used a program called MacTCP, the control panel was PPP.
in 8.5 the networking is called Open Transport and has 3 contol panels you want to configure.

in Modems you tell it where and what your modem is.

In Remote Access you tell about phone numbers and user ids and passwords

In TCP/IP you tell what kind of server to expect. which DNS servers and what addresseing to use.

I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.

 

[WhiteTornado]

Hi, thanks. Yes, I did discover these panels. I actually was able to use the remote access to connect, it dial and connceted. I don't know where it connected, sounds like some prior connection the prior owner had set up. I was not able to go anywhere with it, but I know the hardware works.
Now, I do not see any PPP config panel anywhere.
I would like to know where I should go to change the number the modem is dialing when I connect using the remote access panel.
The panel for the modem is there and this is all fine.
The TCP IP panel is there. Since I am dialing Videotron, I would not need to enter anything there. I never do with other modem with windows system, I only have to give it the phone # and the id.

I am trying to see if I need to download and install a PPP program.

 

[PTmon]

Since your modem is dialing and connecting, you don't need to download anything. You should have a control panel called either Remote Access or PPP. There's a slim possibility you could have FreePPP installed. If so, there would be a folder somewhere on your hard drive with FreePPP config in it. The installation of 8.5 includes everything you need to dial the internet. Your pcmcia card most likely had both ethernet and a modem. You can change which you're using in the TCP/IP control panel, it's just a pull down selection.
Best of luck
PT

http://mahon.homeip.net/remember

 

[jimbopalmer]

in Remote access, there may be a triangle near the word setup, click that and see if it does not display a phone number

in a buttom named options (only visiable in setup mode) is protocol tab where you can make it PPP I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.

 

[WhiteTornado]

Thanks guys!

I got it going!

It was good to know I don't need to add anything, everything I found is larger than a floppy and I don't have a CD drive on this comp!
Ok, I dug in the little mac and found the RMA executable and was able to find the small triangle (which did not appeared on the box located within the Apple menu) and there I was able to configure the ID and password.

Under the Options of the RMA box, I have selected the PPP protocole, I only checked the boxes called header compression and connexion auto with TCPIP

Under the TCPIP panel in the Apple menu I have:
PPP connexion

under configuration: via un serveur PPP

videotron.ca in both the end and start domain boxes (videotron being my ISP)

And this worked.

Happy new year!
Marcel