[wplug] ISPs that support Linux and have West Virginia dialups??

[jsbillings at mac.com]

If you are willing to deal with your own connection problems, or can
sucessfully translate problems from linux-ese to windows-ese, any ISP
can provide you with an account, providing that they use standard PPP
authentication (CHAP, PAP, login, etc.).  I've found that saying that I
have a Windows 95 machine (which only supports the most standard of
dialip software) can get the ISP to tell you what they actually use.

I've found that it's just easier to have a dual-boot machine, or some
old crappy PC or mac lying around so I can tell the ISP what's happening
from that end.

On a side note, if the ISP wants to 'install the connection' or
something like that, avoid it.  Everyone I've ever had to deal with who
did that had the shortest education possible to send them out the door.

I caught the guy trying to install a PCI ethernet card in my mother's
iMac.  (All iMacs have on-board ethernet)

On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 19:30, chromexa at ovis.net wrote:
> Anyone have any good ideas? I still may get my current ISP to do it unoffically. But around 
> here I seem to get "we do not support linux..."  Even if in the case of  mountain.net it was sort 
> of "call back when you have linux..." and now it is "we don't support linux." I know the 
> chance that people in the Pittsburgh Area might not immediately know about things available 
> down here. In the past I might have been willing to coast in Windows 98 assuming I was 
> headedback to the Left Coast and then do Linux there. But since I will be here for awhile as 
> far as I call tell, uh I don't want to install and muck around with another flakey Microsoft OS, 
> whereas I can switch to Linux where I sort of knows lots about from *UNIX and BSD.
> 
> Thanks and Have Fun,
> Sends Steve
> 
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> Have Fun,
> Sends Steve
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