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Quick Someone, lend me a paddle.

Avatar Eric Jervis
I am speaking to you from the public library. I started up last night with the command key down, as my granddaughter wanted to use my OS 9 drive. I suspect that this is what has enabled one of my OSX drives to infect the other. I got the dreaded message from the relentlessly flapping flap that 'Another application has changed your settings'; yes, yes, but which one and how can I kick it in the groin? Please see my earlier thread for explanation, and a Happy New Year to you all.

Re: Quick Someone, lend me a paddle.

Avatar Eric Jervis
Hee hee hee hee hee, I'm back, but I don't know for how long. I did it by telling a porky to the Internet Setup Assistant; when it asked me if I'd ever used this computer to connect to the internet I said "No". It then sorted things out by setting up a new 'location' and congratulated me for now being connected. I'd managed to do this by clicking 'OK' on the flap and then moving the mouse like greased lightning to click on something in the Assistant before the poxy thing flapped down again. I now had to repeat this exercise because it was still there, in order to click on the padlock to prevent further changes.
If I find out what application has the authority to alter my settings I'll belete the dastard!
I'm now going to restart and do it again on the other drive, God willing.

Re: Quick Someone, lend me a paddle.

Avatar Eric Jervis
He was willing. Network settings told me that I was connected to the internet, although that flap was still there. I clicked 'OK' and raced to click the padlock. I then force quitted the Network Prefs and all was OK. (I had to do that the last time but forgot to mention it.)

Re: Quick Someone, lend me a paddle.

Avatar Stuart Affleck
Absolutely no idea what's going wrong for you here, Eric. I'm on my second router (both Belkin) and neither's ever had anything like this occur. All you should need to do is have the username, password, etc, setup on the router- OS X should see everything automatically. I've fiddled with the DNS settings on my Mac to deal with an problem with O2's servers, but that's it. You shouldn't need to do anything in OS X to connect.

Re: Quick Someone, lend me a paddle.

Avatar Eric Jervis
Thank you Stuart, although you say you've no idea, I suspect you've hit the nail on the head because I've just had another unsuccessful go with the Belkin and I don't remember doing that! I just connected it up and went straight into Network Prefs. I'm back on the Voyager 210 at the moment, but I'll try studying the Belkin's instructions, such as they are, very carefully, and see what happens.

Re: Quick Someone, lend me a paddle.

Avatar Eric Jervis
Oh dear, I see I've been libelling that excellent company Belkin. I apologise. The useless piece of junk is actually a Netgear ADSL2+ Modem DM111, which, despite claiming to function on Serious Machines, assumes that it will only be used on Windows. This time, as soon as I reconnected the Voyager I was back on line; no messing about required. I'm going to superglue it to my desk.

Re: Quick Someone, lend me a paddle.

Avatar Mick Burrell
Did you manage to get all your settings correctly entered into the "useless piece of junk" easily?

Re: Quick Someone, lend me a paddle.

Avatar Peter Shepheard
It looks as if you made an unlucky choice. See http://forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php?p=64553.
I also have a Netgear DG834 it is connected to 2 Windows PCs and my iMac and it works perfectly enabling me to access the internet, move data between the 3 machines and share a printer.

Re: Quick Someone, lend me a paddle.

Avatar Lionel Ogden
It would seem that the DM111 is a Modem and not a Modem-Router like the DG834. Perhaps the easiest option would be to put it back in its box, see if your daughter still has the receipt and then change the modem for a router modem. I have a DG834G and it was a breeze to set up, just got to the admin page as described in the manual, enter your log-in details as supplied by your ISP (if you have lost them give your ISP a call). When you have entered the details you should be able to connect.

You occasionally get this problem with manufacturers that one of their products, usually an older version, will not work easily with a Mac. Some time ago I came across a Lexmark Printer that had no driver for the Mac.

Re: Quick Someone, lend me a paddle.

Avatar Eric Jervis
Good evening Gentlemen; Mick: No, I just got the impression that the wretched thing was laughing at me: Peter: I know, I know, but I didn't make the choice, I would certainly have gone for a DG834G but my daughter beat me to it and got that thing for my replacement Christmas present, AND it won't even work on her Windows machine: Lionel: You're probably right, as it so describes itself, and I made very sure she kept the receipt. I've told her she can exchange it for something that will work on her own computer as I'm happy with the BT one!

Re: Quick Someone, lend me a paddle.

Avatar Eric Jervis
Peter, I've just visited that address you gave me and it's a frightening story, isn't it?
 
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