Entourage X modem dialing bug fix

Jan 23, '02 09:35:48AM

Contributed by: dworkman

I love Entourage X, but I have had one constant problem since I have been using it, which has been driving me to distraction, until now.

Whenever I launched Entourage and I didn't have an active internet connection, Entourage would automatically dial my Powerbook's internal modem. Only problem is, I have an ADSL connection using my Ethernet port! I would have to cancel the modem's dial attempt, and then activate the PPPoE connection via the menubar manually. I figured it was an Entourage bug, until now.

I was recently playing with the Location settings in the Apple Menu, and stumbled across a section of the Network Preference Pane I had completely missed, up until now.

Simply launch the Network Preference Pane, and under the "Show" drop-down menu, select Active Network Ports. In my case, I only use the Built-in Ethernet port for my connection, so I moved that port to the top of the list, and deselected the rest. I saved my changes, and launched Entourage without an active internet connection, and to my great satisfaction found that Entourage automatically connected via my ADSL Built-in Ethernet connection!

I hope this is as helpful to someone else as it was to me....

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