Re: Earthlink Dialup
Is Earthlink Linux friendly?
Can I use Kermit or other terminal program to talk to it?
Will it respond to a normal PPP connection?
--David
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Bruce Burhans wrote:
> On 1/24/2002 @ 1:41 AM, Ben wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> the @ in the login wouldn't influence the network behavior, and i know
> from
> an acquaintance who's also on earthlink--using a mac--that she has to
> login
> with her full email address. on win & mac, subscribers have to download
> proprietary dialup software and it's probably due to some aspect of that
>
> [snip]
>
> Yes, you have to log on to Earthlink with your full e-mail address
> and password, but my Internet Explorer does this automatically. And IE
> is *all* I use. I only signed up with EL *because* I wouldn't have to
> use their software.
> The next step, of course, is to get rid of IE. I'm reading through
> the installation manual and trying to get up the nerve to re-install XP
> (Which I have to do in order to divide my HD into 2 equal primary
> partitions because of the way the turkeys at Gateway did it initially)
> and am sending off for the 2.2r5 CDs in the near future.
> Greetings to you one and all from a quaking newbie who is tired of
> being shoved around by MS.
>
> Bruce bburhans@earthlink.net
>
>
>
>
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--David
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