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re: Option still grey after doing all in MS KB article
Monday, March 29, 2004 at 6:51 am
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Posted by Vincent (4 messages posted)

I was having the same problem. It took me about 10 hours of troubleshooting to figure it out. The solution that worked for me was easier than I could of imagined. Under the phone/modem option in the control panel, Configure this so it is aware of your area code and save. For some reason this trigged the other options for the modem and PPPOE. I hope this works for you too.

On Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 10:22 am, Michael Peters wrote:
>Hey just to bump this, I'm having the same problem, and the MS KB article did not
>provide the cure. Both modem and PPPoE options are still greyed out, making install
>of PPPoE impossible. Still searching, but I'm having nada for luck. What causes
>these two options to get greyed in the first place?!
>
>Thanks!
>
>=-MDP-=
>
>
>On Tuesday, February 4, 2003 at 5:42 pm, Ditek wrote:
>>Koizumi,
>>
>>Did you ever figure out what caused this problem? I see that the respondent did
>not
>>properly read your message since he assumes that the "Choose the Connect using a
>>broadband connection that requires a user name and password option, and click Next."
>>is enabled. I am currently experiencing the same thing and I have even re-installed
>>xp from scratch (!!!) I would appreciate any wisdom you could send.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Ditek
>>
>>

Written in response to:: Option still grey after doing all in MS KB article (Michael Peters: Saturday, March 22, 2003 at 10:22 am)

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Question about 'Replace Enternet 300 with Windows XP's built-in support for PPPoE' (koizumi: Sun, Nov 10, 2002, 9:40 am)

re: Question about 'Replace Enternet 300 with Windows XP's built-in support for PPPoE' (Steve: Sun, Nov 10, 2002, 10:59 am)

re: Question about 'Replace Enternet 300 with Windows XP's built-in support for PPPoE' (koizumi: Sun, Nov 10, 2002, 1:25 pm)

re: Question about 'Replace Enternet 300 with Windows XP's built-in support for PPPoE' (Steve: Sun, Nov 10, 2002, 3:10 pm)

re: Question about 'Replace Enternet 300 with Windows XP's built-in support for PPPoE' (LyFsuX: Fri, Nov 15, 2002, 8:38 pm)

re: Question about 'Replace Enternet 300 with Windows XP's built-in support for PPPoE' (XdeeP: Fri, Apr 11, 2003, 8:50 am)

re: Question about 'Replace Enternet 300 with Windows XP's built-in support for PPPoE' (koizumi: Sat, Nov 16, 2002, 8:17 am)

re: Question about 'Replace Enternet 300 with Windows XP's built-in support for PPPoE' (Diedrich Schultz: Fri, Mar 21, 2003, 3:55 pm)

re: Question about 'Replace Enternet 300 with Windows XP's built-in support for PPPoE' (Ygdrassil: Sat, Jan 4, 2003, 9:58 am)

re: Question about 'Replace Enternet 300 with Windows XP's built-in support for PPPoE' (Andy: Sat, Mar 8, 2003, 6:43 am)

i fixed it (yelling)!!! (Noah: Sun, Apr 4, 2004, 6:40 pm)

re: i fixed it (yelling)!!! (Jason: Thu, Aug 19, 2004, 6:21 am)

re: i fixed it (yelling)!!! (bjdobson: Fri, Oct 5, 2007, 10:25 am)

re: Question about 'Replace Enternet 300 with Windows XP's built-in support for PPPoE' (Ditek: Tue, Feb 4, 2003, 5:42 pm)

Option still grey after doing all in MS KB article (Michael Peters: Sat, Mar 22, 2003, 10:22 am)

re: Option still grey after doing all in MS KB article (Al: Mon, Apr 28, 2003, 3:14 pm)

re: Option still grey after doing all in MS KB article (Roger: Mon, Jun 9, 2003, 9:14 pm)

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re: Option still grey after doing all in MS KB article (bill: Tue, Nov 11, 2003, 4:34 pm)

re: Option still grey after doing all in MS KB article (Michael B: Wed, Dec 17, 2003, 12:19 am)

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re: Option still grey after doing all in MS KB article (exdirtfarmer: Tue, Dec 23, 2003, 2:25 pm)

PPPoE is greyed out (Kirk: Mon, Jan 26, 2004, 7:41 pm)

re: PPPoE is greyed out (Terry: Tue, Feb 10, 2004, 3:13 pm)

have u tried this (Sriram: Mon, May 24, 2004, 1:20 am)

re: have u tried this (Ken Lee: Thu, Aug 26, 2004, 1:49 pm)

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re: Finally Fixed the greyed out PPPoE thing (killabee: Sat, Jul 9, 2005, 3:10 pm)

re: Finally Fixed the greyed out PPPoE thing (Steve Polaski: Tue, Nov 15, 2005, 9:15 am)

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re: Option still grey after doing all in MS KB article (Vincent: Mon, Mar 29, 2004, 6:51 am)

re: Option still grey after doing all in MS KB article (Bystander: Thu, Jun 17, 2004, 3:24 am)

re: Option still grey after doing all in MS KB article (Sriram: Thu, Jun 17, 2004, 5:43 am)

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