On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 01:53:13PM -0600, astro wrote:

thunder651 wrote:

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Hi !!! Can someone tell me how to connect to my service provider, read my new eMails and surf on the internet with my SuSE Linux 5.0. At the moment I always have to start BUGsoft Windows95 :-)) and that is bad because I always have to restart and load the sh.... Windows 95. Thanks for your help. ohh... and I'm using a US Robotics Sportster 33.6 (Plug'n'Play).

bye bye ... Jan Rocho....

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Hi Jan You might go to your ISP and tell 'em you want help. If they don't know what Linux is you can shop around for one that does. You *are* paying them money you know. Yours, andy

I am quite lucky in the ISP area since all of the tech support folks at my ISP use different flavors of linux for their support onsite. I have had the unfortuante circumstance of using anything besides a Win 95 solution that ISPs have basically told me that I am on my own. Because of this I have felt compelled to find solutions that work without contacting an ISPs tech support. As a longtime user of OS/2, it became a frustrating episode to have some tech support person tell me that I should not be using operating system "X" or "Y" because they do not support them. Shopping around for an ISP in my area (San Francisco) is quite easy. We probably have over 400 ISPs. Other areas have only a few. The PPP HOWTO while quite good at a technical level may not tell new folks the nuts and bolts of how to connect. It concentrates on technical explanations of what PPP is and how to accomplish it. Perhaps what is needed is a newbie ppp howto. People want to get online quick and see the nifty tools out there. As far as paying for an ISPs support, I believe they should provide multilayered support including diverse operating system support. Its unfortunate that many ISPs do not offer this level of support. I pay my ISP a relatively high amount and they offer a relatively high amount of service. I dont know if I would want to go shopping at this juncture even with 399 other ISPs out there. I think I have my ISP trained to answer my stuupid linux questions... :) Just my personal opinions... -- --Michael Perry-- mperry@mperry.basin.com -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e