Need a little help

[Robert foster]

Hello I bought a new ibook in the spring. I needed to get a new computer after my old os9 imac ( that I had for many years ) started having problems.

My Ibook is a 1.42 GHZ, G4,60 Gb ATA hard drive.

Resently the Modem has been giving me greef. The box that comes up says that it can not detect a dial tone. However the line is working ( I plugged in my old os9 ). I am running 2 phone lines ( no high speed in our area ) and my computer line is divided among the two computers os9 / os10. If I turn my Ibook off the old Imac can not connect to the internet. So I have to disconnect the phone line from the Ibook for the Imac to connect.

Other than that the Ibook is showing no other problems. Any thoughts?

Robert

 

[symphonix]

Go to System Preferences -> Network.
Under "Show" select "Internal Modem".
Go to the modem tab.
Uncheck "Wait for dial tone before dialling".
Click "Apply Now".

This will stop the error. There are several reasons why the modem might not recognise the dial tone - it differs from country to country, and differs if you have voicemail, are on a PABX, and so on. Its easier in most cases to just disable that option.

 

[Robert foster]

Thank you, I tried it but it still not working. The error message is " that there is a modem error, please check your settings "

when I go to System Preferences, then Network.
the Internal Modem says " Internal modem is configured, but not connected ". So all I can say is that it was working fine for several months and then one day it just stopped!

Robert