A couple weeks back I added a new HD and installed 9.0 on it for a friend's daughter (12 Y.O.) who is absolutely delighted with it and not looking to boot into the windows side again IF she can get connected to the internet with Linux. Problem is that she needed a new modem (real modem - that problem fixed over the weekend) but the ONLY source they have where they live is AOL. Not being familiar with AOL, can someone give me some advice that I can share with them as to how we get them on line with the modem and AOL. I'm fairly sure I know the modem part, but it's the AOL portion with which I don't have a clue. All help greatly appreciated. dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.1 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe
David Johanson wrote:
A couple weeks back I added a new HD and installed 9.0 on it for a friend's daughter (12 Y.O.) who is absolutely delighted with it and not looking to boot into the windows side again IF she can get connected to the internet with Linux. Problem is that she needed a new modem (real modem - that problem fixed over the weekend) but the ONLY source they have where they live is AOL. Not being familiar with AOL, can someone give me some advice that I can share with them as to how we get them on line with the modem and AOL. I'm fairly sure I know the modem part, but it's the AOL portion with which I don't have a clue.
David... Last time I checked, there was no such thing as AOL on Linux. And thank goodness for that... <grin> Sorry... You MAY have luck if you google around a bit for AOL and Wine... I know that I have no problem at all running MS Office 2000 at work on my Red Hat box running Wine... so AOL MAY run under wine... Another (but costly) approach would be to install VMWare and then install windows inside VMWare, and then install AOL inside Windows inside VMWare... heh... but that requires A: money for VMWare, and B: lots of RAM to support running Windows, AOL, AND X on a linux box... If you do happen to find some way to run the AOL software with an emulator, let us know... sounds like an interesting experiment at least... Cheers Jeff
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David... Last time I checked, there was no such thing as AOL on Linux. And thank goodness for that... <grin> Sorry... You MAY have luck if you google around a bit for AOL and Wine... I know that I have no problem at all running MS Office 2000 at work on my Red Hat box running Wine... so AOL MAY run under wine...
Another (but costly) approach would be to install VMWare and then install windows inside VMWare, and then install AOL inside Windows inside VMWare... heh... but that requires A: money for VMWare, and B: lots of RAM to support running Windows, AOL, AND X on a linux box...
If you do happen to find some way to run the AOL software with an emulator, let us know... sounds like an interesting experiment at least...
Cheers Jeff
Well, I've found this, http://www.tfug.org/pipermail/tfug/2002-July/001852.html, but since I don't read french, I'm a bit out of luck dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.1 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Jeffrey Lane wrote:
David Johanson wrote:
A couple weeks back I added a new HD and installed 9.0 on it for a friend's daughter (12 Y.O.) who is absolutely delighted with it and not looking to boot into the windows side again IF she can get connected to the internet with Linux. Problem is that she needed a new modem (real modem - that problem fixed over the weekend) but the ONLY source they have where they live is AOL. Not being familiar with AOL, can someone give me some advice that I can share with them as to how we get them on line with the modem and AOL. I'm fairly sure I know the modem part, but it's the AOL portion with which I don't have a clue.
David... Last time I checked, there was no such thing as AOL on Linux.
Actually, there are AOL clients available for Linux. They just aren't put out by AOL or supported by them. As far as I can tell, one of them is located at http://www.pengaol.apinc.org/. Problem is, I don't read french. But I do seem to recall that it's out there. Krikket
Krikket wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Jeffrey Lane wrote:
David Johanson wrote:
A couple weeks back I added a new HD and installed 9.0 on it for a friend's daughter (12 Y.O.) who is absolutely delighted with it and not looking to boot into the windows side again IF she can get connected to the internet with Linux. Problem is that she needed a new modem (real modem - that problem fixed over the weekend) but the ONLY source they have where they live is AOL. Not being familiar with AOL, can someone give me some advice that I can share with them as to how we get them on line with the modem and AOL. I'm fairly sure I know the modem part, but it's the AOL portion with which I don't have a clue.
David... Last time I checked, there was no such thing as AOL on Linux.
Actually, there are AOL clients available for Linux. They just aren't put out by AOL or supported by them.
As far as I can tell, one of them is located at http://www.pengaol.apinc.org/. Problem is, I don't read french.
But I do seem to recall that it's out there.
Krikket
OK, I looked into it a bit and found this site http://www.peng.apinc.org/eng/ It is a french group creating a Linux client for AOL. The program is called penggy. HTH.
On Thursday 11 December 2003 18:48, David Johanson wrote:
A couple weeks back I added a new HD and installed 9.0 on it for a friend's daughter (12 Y.O.) who is absolutely delighted with it and not looking to boot into the windows side again IF she can get connected to the internet with Linux. Problem is that she needed a new modem (real modem - that problem fixed over the weekend) but the ONLY source they have where they live is AOL.
This is highly unlikely. There are many dial-up ISPs offering service regionally or nationally.
Not being familiar with AOL, can someone give me some advice that I can share with them as to how we get them on line with the modem and AOL. I'm fairly sure I know the modem part, but it's the AOL portion with which I don't have a clue.
Unless she is wedded to AOL, have her switch to a different ISP. You can likely find good dial-up service for $10/month. AOL is currently being sued in Ohio http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20031028-091623-9773r.htm for making account closures difficult, so have someone assist her if she decides to switch. I have personally of such practices from several acquaintances. If she wishes for some peculiar reason to continue to use AOL, that is most easily done with a Microsoft WIndows operating system - not Linux.
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