FreeWWWeb ( http://www.FreeWWWeb.com/ ) combines Smart World Technologies'
infrastructure ( http://www.SmartWorld.net/ ) with a customized NBCi portal
( http://FreeWWWeb.Snap.com/ ). When I registered with them online using the
"I've already got a web browser" option, their Java apps automagically created
an icon on my Win95 desktop (which I'm forced to use at work). The icon, when
launched, presumably sets up your PPP dialup and mail account. What I did
was drag the icon into Notepad, got the dialup number, username/password
combos, DNS addrs, POP/SMTP hostnames, and browser start page URL, printed
it off, then set up my Red Hat dialer with the info. It worked. Sort of.
I'm still trying to figure out how to get pppd to refresh my
/etc/resolv.conf , so I manually copied pppd's info just one time. Just make
sure you turn on PAP and you won't have to input the DNS addresses, which
could change, after all.
I don't know what happens if you attempt to sign up online from a Linux (or
MacOS) browser. YMMV.
ONE BIG CAVEAT: make sure that your very first act after PPP connection is
to the http://home.freewwweb.com/ page. By hitting that page, FreeWWWeb
bounces you to their money-making page (the customized Snap portal) after
presumably recording the fact that you hit home.freewwweb.com. This will keep
your account from being deactivated.
It goes a lot faster if you do this in Lynx. I'm not sure what happens
account-wise if you don't follow the "REFRESH" link to Snap.
Smart World also has a free DSL service ( http://www.FreeXDSL.com/ ) that
I'm going to be looking into. If that service uses an external DSL bridge
(i.e., requires only an Ethernet card of the client PC), then it should be
able to work with Linux.
On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 04:45:00PM -0500, Chris Fowler wrote:
> Does anyone here use a free ISP with Linux? If so, how do you get around
> having to have those adds pushed to your client?
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