The internet setup in MacOS X (and X.1) is all done using the "System Preferences" application. There are two ways to get there, as illustrated to the right -->-->--> click here for a picture of the SystemPrefs icon in the dock.

"System Preferences" is accessed via the Dock, or via the Apple Menu in the top right hand corner.

This is what you are greeted with upon opening the "System Preferences" application

Click on the blue globe that says "Network" (theres two, one is always at the top of the internet preferences), and NOT the one that says "Internet'. The "Internet" preferences is where you put things like email, news, default webbrowser etc.

The "Location: " popup menu is bullshit, it allows multiple network configurations to be setup, with easy switching between them. Make sure that the modem is selected in the "Show: " popup, if it isn't then you will be setting up the DNS servers etc for your ethernet card instead of your modem link. Choose PPP from the "Configure: " popup menu, and as indicated, there is no need to put in nameservers. (but you'd probably want to anyway) The "search domains" part is really bullshit. all it means is that if no IP address is found for a host it will check host.searchdomain - for example if i used "mail" as my mailserver address, and i had "dingoblue.net.au" in the search domains box, when it realises there is no such host as "mail" it will try with .dingoblue.net.au on the end. as i said bullshit.

This is the TCP/IP tab in the network control panel (these are closest thing to control panels now).

The modem tab, in the network "control panel".

This is the Modem tab of the Network control panel. Here we get to choose what type of modem, tone or pulse, noisy or silent connect, error correction/data compression etc. Shouldn't be too difficult - It's the same as the old modem control panel.

This is sort-of what used to be the "Remote Access" control panel in MacOS9. Here we setup the ISP phone number, username and password. You could also click the "PPP Options..." button, but it doesn't do much really. Click here to see the window it brings up.

The PPP tab of the "Network" control panel.

The boring "Proxies" tab in the "Network" control panel.

As you can see, this is the "Proxies" tab. It's pretty boring really, and only used by some applications to automatically setup preferences (just like what the Internet control panel does). Self-Explanatory, and not really worth entering any info anyway in my opinion.

And that just about wraps up setting up an Internet connection using MacOS X. Email me if you have any questions.

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