okay, I'll interrupt my saturday night 'Learn Klingon Lessons and Yoghurt eating-while watching Titanic sink' (yes I suck badly, but hey I like me
umm, you said elaborate after 'then either at this point, put in l/p into the two tabs in the dialler software..
okay..
at this point, you have multiple tabs in the dialler modem software in which stuff can be written - mainly in the NETWORK and ISP tabs- (think it has something like 'sentechuser' or something as default - here one needs to put your correct username/password in both, if the software doesnt stupidly auto-connect before you've managed to do it, taking you I think, to the web-based log-on page.
re the 'restart' mention:
What I did most times, was not restart, but fiddle around online, enjoying the fact that I was online.. so although I mentioned a restart, it isnt really necessary - usually a required restart is just bad programming where coders want to make sure the new data writes in the registry properly and that the app starts with lots of ram.. so if you manage to get online straight off, perhaps a windows update at this point is in order immediately, especially if its a win98se machine which hasnt been online previously..
You mentioned a three hour-ish update session, shouldnt have been that long - either the linespeed was slow, or else half the win98se machine's OS was missing
(I didnt need any further patches or updates, but I did go from a fully installed TCP-IP protocol for modem, to the MyWireless setup, and seemed to have everything necessary..
but the main thing is: install the proggie, and plugin and either restart to let windows 'see' the new app - and at this point put in the required l/p in the NETWORK/ISP tabs on the dialler software - or else, finish the install and see if you can just get online immediately without any restart - I've done the install both ways and it pretty much worked ok either way..
Also, given the tiny size of the install, its not a train wreck to uninstall, restart and re-install - its taken about 5 -10 minutes max, which compared to the hours and hours with Megawan previously, makes the sentech setup very sweet and not at all forbidding when something goes wrong..
It does occur re the win98's not connecting outward, that maybe one of the things below might be playing a part
a) make sure the machine has no firewall, or if it does, that the modem's 'allowed' traffic and server rights
b) check what other protocols are in place in the Network section, and if there're a whole bunch of odd or unknown protocols, one of them could be fighting and conflicting..
also the fact that tcp updates for windows were needed, maybe the bios needs a lookthrough, ditto the ports (in case this is either an old machine or a machine that's had some ports blocked for other purposes and these blocks have been left in place, without the user knowing..
hope some of the above is of use..
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