i installed arachne and when i booted it said "no network interface available." Do I need to install linkys driver to msdos?? very confused.

looks like you gonna set up your client PC as network client before you even try i-net

Are you using Arachne over a network or just a dial up connection through the modem on the computer that Arachne is installed on?

iam using at AT&T cable broadband. what to do?

Crystal, you probably need a couple of small DOS drivers to get on the Internet in DOS over ATÞBroadband, I'm doing this as a "best guess" though. All my experience has been with dialup modems. Anyway, you will need a packet driver to connect your cable modem or DSL whichever you have to the ATT server, then you'll need a TCP/IP stack to translate. Try a couple of sites, www.crynwr.com has drivers and pkt shims, and here's a site with ISDN and ASDL drivers http://home.foni.net/~hanewin/disdn-e.htm Also, you might be able to use one of those to connect Arachne to ATT, then use either PPPD.EXE from DOSPPPD or maybe WZPPP (a TCP/IP stack I created) to do the socket TCP/IP translating. DOSPPPD and WZPPP are available from my SurfBest site http://members.surfbest.net/wizard57m@surfbest.net/index.htm Then, once you get those drivers connected, start Arachne, press "O" (letter oh) to get to the options page, click on TCP/IP setup, then choose "resident packet driver", then choose either BOOTP/DHCP or LANTCP...if you choose LANTCP you will have to edit the file LANTCP.CFG with a text editor, such as EDIT.COM, and put in your network settings, DNS, your IP address, network server IP etc. Let me know if that helps! C U L8R! Wiz <{;-)

hi wizard! I will try this out. Thanks so much! Crystal

Crystal, I should also mention that Arachne contains drivers for a few NICs (network interface cards), when you extract the installer, it will place them in a subdirectory, normally in /arachne/system/devdrvrs If by chance you have a NIC you might be able to use one of these drivers to connect Arachne. If you do, I'm pretty sure you will need to use the "LANTCP.CFG" setup I mentioned above. I would also mention that Arachne usually runs better when you boot your computer into DOS, although a few users have managed to use it in a DOS box while running Windows 9X (95, 98, 98SE etc) Myself, I usually run it in plain DOS...if you need help getting your computer to boot to DOS, send me an email. Good luck! Wiz <{;-)