Funny experience setting up account on Linux Machine!

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vern

2008-01-30 06:39:12 UTC

I gave my Windoz to a friend and kept the Linux Fedora one.
But like a dummy, i reset the modem. OOPS!
Time to activatemydsl!
I decided to call tech support at midnight.
Sorry, you don't have Windoz!
I know, it's Fedora! Well, you have to have Windoz to setup your account!
I'm a little bit smart. I set up my username and password on the Windoz
machine, so i knew them. I researched every Linux forum i could
on library computer.
Then i went to 192.168.1.1 and clicked on trouble shooting.
I saw a bunch of invalid dns entry's.
I remembered i saw dns in VC. Yep, that did it!
The main thing that helped other than setting dns was i port foward "http"
to my user supplied dns and i'm online using Linux.
I tested it and reset the modem and set it up again!
Those Tech Support and Accounts/billing in Iran just read the script and
said:
"you must have Windoz or Mac!"

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Patrick Phillips

2008-01-30 08:16:39 UTC

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Post by vern
I gave my Windoz to a friend and kept the Linux Fedora one.
But like a dummy, i reset the modem. OOPS!
Time to activatemydsl!
I decided to call tech support at midnight.
Sorry, you don't have Windoz!
I know, it's Fedora! Well, you have to have Windoz to setup your account!
I'm a little bit smart. I set up my username and password on the
Windoz machine, so i knew them. I researched every Linux forum i
could on library computer.
Then i went to 192.168.1.1 and clicked on trouble shooting.
I saw a bunch of invalid dns entry's.
I remembered i saw dns in VC. Yep, that did it!
The main thing that helped other than setting dns was i port foward
"http" to my user supplied dns and i'm online using Linux.
I tested it and reset the modem and set it up again!
Those Tech Support and Accounts/billing in Iran just read the script
"you must have Windoz or Mac!"

Welcome to VZ...what can make VZ.net access confusing for new users is
they use two different types of network DSL protocols in 2 different
areas of the US.
One for the former Bell Atlantic/New York telco networks mostly on
east coast use a PPPoE protocol which requires a network log-in with
username/password; and then us former GTE telco area users who are on
DHCP network not requiring a username/password to connect.

It seems no large ISP's officially support anything other than Win/Mac
for residential accounts anyway. Maybe someday when there are more
home Linux users like us they will. :-)

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Patrick in IL.

Geoff

2008-01-30 14:21:08 UTC

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On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:16:39 GMT, Patrick Phillips

Post by Patrick Phillips

Welcome to VZ...what can make VZ.net access confusing for new users is
they use two different types of network DSL protocols in 2 different
areas of the US.
One for the former Bell Atlantic/New York telco networks mostly on
east coast use a PPPoE protocol which requires a network log-in with
username/password; and then us former GTE telco area users who are on
DHCP network not requiring a username/password to connect.
It seems no large ISP's officially support anything other than Win/Mac
for residential accounts anyway. Maybe someday when there are more
home Linux users like us they will. :-)

What is even more fun is when getting FiOS a couple years ago in the
fGTE area I went from DHCP on DSL to PPPoE on FiOS. Today, if you
subscribe to FiOS in fGTE a few blocks from me you will get DHCP.

Life is like a box of chocolates and so is Verizon methodology.

Tom

2008-01-30 13:25:57 UTC

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Post by vern
I gave my Windoz to a friend and kept the Linux Fedora one.
But like a dummy, i reset the modem. OOPS!
Time to activatemydsl!
I decided to call tech support at midnight.
Sorry, you don't have Windoz!
I know, it's Fedora! Well, you have to have Windoz to setup your account!
I'm a little bit smart. I set up my username and password on the Windoz
machine, so i knew them. I researched every Linux forum i could
on library computer.
Then i went to 192.168.1.1 and clicked on trouble shooting.
I saw a bunch of invalid dns entry's.
I remembered i saw dns in VC. Yep, that did it!
The main thing that helped other than setting dns was i port foward "http"
to my user supplied dns and i'm online using Linux.
I tested it and reset the modem and set it up again!
Those Tech Support and Accounts/billing in Iran just read the script
"you must have Windoz or Mac!"

When they heard I had a router they told me that "linksys routers don't
work, you must purchase a modem/router combination from Verizon".
LinkSys's legal department loved hearing that one.

Elmo

2008-01-30 23:51:58 UTC

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Post by vern
I gave my Windoz to a friend and kept the Linux Fedora one.
But like a dummy, i reset the modem. OOPS!
Time to activatemydsl!
I decided to call tech support at midnight.
Sorry, you don't have Windoz!
I know, it's Fedora! Well, you have to have Windoz to setup your account!
I'm a little bit smart. I set up my username and password on the Windoz
machine, so i knew them. I researched every Linux forum i could
on library computer.
Then i went to 192.168.1.1 and clicked on trouble shooting.
I saw a bunch of invalid dns entry's.
I remembered i saw dns in VC. Yep, that did it!
The main thing that helped other than setting dns was i port foward "http"
to my user supplied dns and i'm online using Linux.
I tested it and reset the modem and set it up again!
Those Tech Support and Accounts/billing in Iran just read the script and
"you must have Windoz or Mac!"

Since I have a DSL modem/router combination, it has the PPP connection
data stored in it. It stays connected and re-connects as needed even
when all the PC's in the house are powered off. When I had to re-set
it, I used it's HTML interface to re-configure the PPP settings. So
you should be able to do the same.

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