[vox-if] Big Valley Net Declines Linux Support

[Ryan]

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On Friday 02 April 2004 09:11 am, Shorter Rankin=20
nighthawk999-at-bigvalley.net |lugod| wrote:
> Help. I've been on Big Valley Net for dialup which works
> ok for Windows or OS/2 but has a 100% failure rate for
> Linux. They have Linux instructions ... based on Red
> Hat 5? 6? and I've followed them exactly... I dial in
> hear the modems negotiating, see the connect
> string and immediately get disconnected.
> I followed all the steps in the ISP-connect-HOWTO,
> chat secrets, pap secrets, etc.
>
> Big Valley 'tech support' says sorry... we don't
> tech support Linux. Considering that they post
> Linux instructions on their web site - that sucks
> IMO.
>
> Any ideas?


I've used kppp sucessfully in the past. From thier website, it looks like a=
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plain, generic PPP connection.

Though you might also want to switch to an ISP who doesn't configure their=
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mail server to ad advertisements to your outgoing messages.


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