[SATLUG] ISP that doesn't support Linux

[Jaret Pfluger]

Have you asked your ISP for their Primary DNS IP address? (and the secondary
address, if they use one?)  You may want to verify that the
username/password you are supplying the server when trying to make the
connection is correct?

If it's a DNS IP address issue, then read on.... If not, then I apologize
:( but maybe some more info would be nice. :) (For example, can your
computer recognize your modem?)

I had problems connecting w/ AT&T a few years ago and called their tech
support. The guy gave me the DNS IP addresses to use and plugged those into
the accounts section of a ppp connection dialer program (it worked w/ both
the ones that came with Red Hat and Mandrake at the time). The connection
then succeeded. I used the same tactic with a mom and pop ISP outfit near
Marble Falls. Maybe the same with Guadalupe???

I don't know if there is a way to find Guadalupe's DNS IP addresses without
asking them (check the web?). Maybe someone else on this list knows? Or even
has the IP addresses themselves? I think they'd be stored in
/etc/resolv.conf. If you have another computer that has a connection to
Guadalupe and it's windows/apple, then look in the TCP/IP Properties and the
general tab. You should have the DNS addresses listed there.

Just guesses... :)

Jaret


-----Original Message-----
From: satlug-admin at satlug.org [mailto:satlug-admin at satlug.org]On Behalf
Of Timothy Keith
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 4:54 PM
To: satlug at satlug.org
Subject: [SATLUG] ISP that doesn't support Linux



I am having difficulties connecting to Guadalupe Valley Telephone
Company's dial-up
Internet service.  They do not support Linux.     Anyone has any tips on
how to make this
work  ?

Tim

(830) 980-6556
tkeith at mindspring.com


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