OT (?), AOL under win4lin

[Fraser Campbell]

On January 24, 2004 09:03 am, Fraser Campbell wrote:

> I can sign-on and view all aol content but whenever I try to view any
> Internet website I cannot.  In the browser window I see only a *, the
> actual source of all webpages looks like this:

Well for the record, I got it working.

Attempt X:

	Reinstalled windows choosing vnet networking (I think I'd used winsock
	before).  Installed AOL 8.0.

	IE does not function at all, looks like DNS failure.

	AOL does not function at all (can't get connection).

	Interestingly networking seems to be okay.  I can ping the outside world
	and DNS is partially working (I say partially because some hostnames resolved
	to odd ip addresses).

Attempt X + 1:

	Reinstall Windows again, again choose vnet networking.

	First step apply all Windows updates.  Interesting point about this is that
	you can't run Windows update for IE4.  You first have to find a manual
	download for the newer IE (I chose 6) and install that (with constant "script
	errors" as you browse Microsoft's own site). 

	I recall a similar farce with NT (can't remember if it was 3.51 or 4), it
	came with IE3 and Microsoft	barred you from their own site, I had to use
	command line FTP to fetch a new	Netscape in order to get an updated IE.

	With IE6 installed Windows update will now run and I install all updates.

	I install AOL 8.0.  Again nothing seems to work.  I beat on it for a while
	and can't get it to work, I may even have done another reinstall.

	I give up on win4lin (or at least have to prove whether it's a win4lin issue
	or just the regular windows crap so I go out and buy a new/old PC to install
	windows on.  I get home, AOL and everything works ... the wife claims she
	fixed it (fat chance!).


Anyway, the moral of the story is that AOL can run under win4lin (not that 
there should have been doubt).  Now to figure out why that crappy AOL system 
is eating cookies :-(

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Georgetown, Ontario, Canada                               Debian GNU/Linux

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