Re: OT: Help with simple Linux maintenance

2009-06-17 Thread Leonid Podolny
Dotan Cohen wrote: All they did was take my money, and when I could not connect for three days they refused to help me. After three days I had to sign up with another ISP just to get an internet connection, and Netvision refues to let me out of my one-year contract with them. IANAL and such,

Re: OT: Help with simple Linux maintenance

2009-06-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
IANAL and such, but there is a law that says that you can cancel a service up to the point that they started actually giving you this service. I experienced it at the very similar situation some years ago: I switched ISPs (012 to Actcom, I think) because the former one wouldn't give the DHCP

Re: OT: Help with simple Linux maintenance

2009-06-16 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 16, 2009, at 2:44 AM, Gal Goldschmidt wrote: I guess I can buy a router, configure it and sent it to her, the problem is who will connect the right cables in the right place. It should be pretty simple. With one computer, it's 2 cables. If you go with the wireless option you can

Re: OT: Help with simple Linux maintenance

2009-06-16 Thread Ez-Aton
I have had to fake the entire add/remove software for Cellcom cellular modem with a tech support until I broke and just asked for the default init strings. This was funny. I was removing the drivers through the control panel and through 'add-remove software', rebooting and then reinstalling

Re: OT: Help with simple Linux maintenance

2009-06-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
and Netvision are thieves who want our money, not our business. They deserve neither. That may be true, and certainly they (well, Barak) want our business because of the money we pay, can't fault that, can we?... FWIW, Netvision have always (since 1996 for me) provided decent Linux support

Re: OT: Help with simple Linux maintenance

2009-06-16 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Gal Goldschmidt g...@cs.haifa.ac.il writes: From time to time I get blocked, especially if I switch the hardware connected to the modem. snip I guess I can buy a router, configure it and sent it to her, the problem is who will connect the right cables in the right place. I don't experience

Re: OT: Help with simple Linux maintenance

2009-06-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
I'm not sure I agree with your claim about old Actcom's staff. I know most of them (except one, I think) were not hired by Bezeq Int. Really? They assured me that the staff stayed, and I have gotten L-word help when I needed it. Netvision would not help me when I couldn't tell the nice young

Re: OT: Help with simple Linux maintenance

2009-06-15 Thread guy keren
Dotan Cohen wrote: I'm not sure I agree with your claim about old Actcom's staff. I know most of them (except one, I think) were not hired by Bezeq Int. Really? They assured me that the staff stayed, and I have gotten L-word help when I needed it. Netvision would not help me when I couldn't

Re: OT: Help with simple Linux maintenance

2009-06-15 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
She has a Linux laptop fully functional with Kbuntu 9.04. It is connected via Ethernet to a cable modem. The cable modem is working and the computer receives a cable IP . She has a Netvision account and the connect script was tested with a cable modem at my place and it worked. The

Re: OT: Help with simple Linux maintenance

2009-06-15 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
Hi Oleg, We tried to get a direct connection without a dialer, when we opened the account for her. Netvision although a few months after the merge with Barak, refused to give a Barak account with no dialer. I have a Barak account, no dialer, but they are not giving it any more ( the last time

Re: OT: Help with simple Linux maintenance

2009-06-15 Thread Yuval Hager
On Tuesday 16 June 2009, Gal Goldschmidt wrote: Hi Oleg, We tried to get a direct connection without a dialer, when we opened the account for her. Netvision although a few months after the merge with Barak, refused to give a Barak account with no dialer. I have a Barak account, no dialer,

OT: Help with simple Linux maintenance

2009-06-14 Thread Gal Goldschmidt
Hi, A friend of mine is looking for basic Linux support at the Safed area. It is hard for me to drive there for personal reasons. She has a Linux laptop fully functional with Kbuntu 9.04. It is connected via Ethernet to a cable modem. The cable modem is working and the computer receives a cable

Re: OT: Help with simple Linux maintenance

2009-06-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
A friend of mine is looking for basic Linux support at the Safed area. It is hard for me to drive there for personal reasons. She has a Linux laptop fully functional with Kbuntu 9.04. It is connected via Ethernet to a cable modem. The cable modem is working and the computer receives a cable

Re: OT: Help with simple Linux maintenance

2009-06-14 Thread Ez-Aton
I'm not sure I agree with your claim about old Actcom's staff. I know most of them (except one, I think) were not hired by Bezeq Int. Gal - about your friend - you could try this. Might help you. http://run.tournament.org.il/cables-connection-in-israel-for-linux/ Ez Dotan Cohen wrote:

Re: OT: Help with simple Linux maintenance

2009-06-14 Thread Shahar Dag
commands (I am sure that there is a more elegant way to solve this, but I don't know it) Shahar - Original Message - From: Dotan Cohen To: Gal Goldschmidt Cc: linux-il Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 12:30 AM Subject: Re: OT: Help with simple Linux maintenance A friend