ElDiabloConCaca
U.S.D.A. Prime
Please help! Southwestern Bell told me that since my hard drive is partitioned and I'm running a "dual-boot" system, they cannot help me. They only provide technical support for those running one partition. Besides, I've already tried everything... ACK!
After partitioning my 10 GB hard drive (5GB: OS 9, 5GB: OS X) and re-loading OS 9.1 and X, my DSL connection has exhibited some WEIRD symptoms under OS 9. OS X's PPPoE works flawlessly, and I can surf all day and night with it... however, I am using EnterNet 300 1.11 under OS 9 to connect with the DSL modem... it USED to work, but after partitioning/reloading my hard drive, it will only let me make one initial connection to a website/FTP site/pop mailbox and then it'll refuse to connect to any other place.
For example, I can connect with EnterNEt 300, go to www.apple.com, watch the page load, type (oh, forgive me!) www.microsoft.com and after about a minute of "trying" to connect, Internet Explorer will return a "failed to connect to: www.***.com" message. Or, I can get mail from one pop mailbox, then load up IE and try to go to a webpage, and it's a no go... or, I can connect, load up "Software Update," let it look for new updates, but it won't download them (that's one too many connections: one to receive the list of updates, another to download the updates. Connection 1 works fine [receive list of updates]. Connection 2 [the download of the updates] fails as described).
OS X, fine. OS 9, weird. SWBell's help desk says that the partitioning of the hard drive is what's screwing it up. I'm tempted to believe them since it started happening right around the time I reformatted/repartitioned. I used to have OS 9/OS X on the SAME partition and everything worked. 2 partitions = no go in OS 9.
Any ideas? I've already gone through the hassle of reformatting/reloading/trashing prefs, etc etc etc... I've even loaded a FRESH system and nothing but EnterNet 300 1.11 and the same results occur. I'm at my wit's end.
After partitioning my 10 GB hard drive (5GB: OS 9, 5GB: OS X) and re-loading OS 9.1 and X, my DSL connection has exhibited some WEIRD symptoms under OS 9. OS X's PPPoE works flawlessly, and I can surf all day and night with it... however, I am using EnterNet 300 1.11 under OS 9 to connect with the DSL modem... it USED to work, but after partitioning/reloading my hard drive, it will only let me make one initial connection to a website/FTP site/pop mailbox and then it'll refuse to connect to any other place.
For example, I can connect with EnterNEt 300, go to www.apple.com, watch the page load, type (oh, forgive me!) www.microsoft.com and after about a minute of "trying" to connect, Internet Explorer will return a "failed to connect to: www.***.com" message. Or, I can get mail from one pop mailbox, then load up IE and try to go to a webpage, and it's a no go... or, I can connect, load up "Software Update," let it look for new updates, but it won't download them (that's one too many connections: one to receive the list of updates, another to download the updates. Connection 1 works fine [receive list of updates]. Connection 2 [the download of the updates] fails as described).
OS X, fine. OS 9, weird. SWBell's help desk says that the partitioning of the hard drive is what's screwing it up. I'm tempted to believe them since it started happening right around the time I reformatted/repartitioned. I used to have OS 9/OS X on the SAME partition and everything worked. 2 partitions = no go in OS 9.
Any ideas? I've already gone through the hassle of reformatting/reloading/trashing prefs, etc etc etc... I've even loaded a FRESH system and nothing but EnterNet 300 1.11 and the same results occur. I'm at my wit's end.