the Pilots Lounge?
MercNet requires true PPP. SLiRP and TIA are PPP emulators that don’t support features needed by the MercNet internet driver. You may be able to get around the problem by using a 3rd party IPX emulator such as Kali, but we have not confirmed this. When I run MERCPPP and enter in my ISP’s phone #, etc., it takes all my inputs and seems to “save to net.cfg” just fine, but I never get the main menu afterwards. It only gives me the “current” selection again. The first time you go through MERCPPP.BAT and enter in your COM port, you *must save and exit* before you can see the main menu. That’s right – hit ESC again after saving and say YES when it asks if you want to leave. MERCPPP will then take you to the main menu. (The main menu won’t show up until PPP is loaded, and it can’t load PPP until you tell it what COM port you have and exit.) I can almost log in with MERCPPP, but it says BAD USERNAME OR PASSWORD even though I typed them in right! Many ISP’s require you to type in a prefix in fr
