Why doesn Arachne dial with my modem ?
Our dialer setup screen is not able to deal with some extremely non-standard modem configurations. (for example, with modem on COM4 and with no COM3 device, you may have to pretend it is on COM2 and manually select correct base address and irq which belongs to your COM4; you can also try to manually enter your parameters to ARACHNE.CFG) xChaos software is not responsible for any included or recommended PPP dialer: we only wrote user friendly HTML setup screens for the DOSPPPD. This DOS port of Linux pppd seems to work on many typical DOS based PCs. Plug your external modem to COM2 (mouse on COM1) or internal modem to COM3, irq 4 (mouse on COM2), and “everything’s gonna be all right”. Many problems are with Windows-specific internal devices – Winmodems. They require specific drivers to be used, and if such a driver is not available for DOS, you are lost. When buying an internal modem, always make sure that it will be visible for your BIOS/DOS as third serial port – otherwise you won’t b
