dial up in Jaguar

josephgjosephg
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I'm home for the holidays, where we only have dialup. I can't get my TiBook's internal modem to work in OS 10.2. It works fine in 9.2, but when I use the same settings (connect via PPP Using PPP Server, with the internal modem) in 10.2, I get the error: "Could not open communications device".



It worked last time I was home, but that was with OS 10.1.5



Any ideas?

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 11
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    you can't update to 10.2.3, can you ?
  • Reply 2 of 11
    josephgjosephg Posts: 111member
    [quote]Originally posted by Defiant:

    <strong>you can't update to 10.2.3, can you ?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    That's about a 50MB download, right? That would probably kill my dialup.



    I figure there's just something I'm missing. TiBook modems not working with Jaguar I think would be too major a problem to be a bug that just slipped through.
  • Reply 3 of 11
    paulpaul Posts: 5,278member
    run "top" from the terminal



    post what you get using the [code] </pre><hr></blockquote> format...



    I've seen this problem before....



    have you used your modem at all?(In 10.2)



    what apps are launching at startup?
  • Reply 4 of 11
    kingofsomewherehotkingofsomewherehot Posts: 4,180member
    i have used my modem in 10.2.2 (not yet in -.3 though).



    So it should work for you
  • Reply 5 of 11
    josephgjosephg Posts: 111member
    Got it working! Posting this in X.2



    Went to the Apple Support site. Apparently it's a "rare" problem, so lucky me...



    Just had to download the half-MB Mac OS X Modem Update, run it, restart, and my modem is singing again.
  • Reply 6 of 11
    paulpaul Posts: 5,278member
    heh ummm can i have a link to the page where you got that info from? <img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" /> \\heh thanks
  • Reply 7 of 11
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    <a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120157"; target="_blank">here</a> you go, Paul.
  • Reply 8 of 11
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    I wanted to install it on my mac, but it said that my software is already "up-to-date".



    probably 10.2.3 comes with that fix.
  • Reply 9 of 11
    paulpaul Posts: 5,278member
    yup only affects OS 10.2-10.2.1

    i guess my problem is something else
  • Reply 10 of 11
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    time to start a new thread then !
  • Reply 11 of 11
    paulpaul Posts: 5,278member
    [quote]Originally posted by Defiant:

    <strong>time to start a new thread then !</strong><hr></blockquote>



    eh... no I have a "fix" that seems to work... i bet it is just the custom script I am using for it...

    PITA tho sometimes...

    not a big deal...



    maybe later
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