Comment 491 for bug 1

Greetings List Lurkers,

I just tried to hook up and older gentleman with one of the charity
systems we built from the state surplus stuff. The system boots Ubuntu
6.10 Dapper Drake. The verizon Westell DSL access modem comes up with
three lights. The system gets an IP address and a web page comes up.
Technically the system is cherry.

Then a Verizon web page appears and tells me that it cannot support this
operating system, and when I call their support desk, they tell me that I
have to use a Windows client or a Mac client.

I thought the Carphone case allowed me choice in my telecommunications
options. Why would I want this company to be able to sell this crapy
backwards technical system to Fairpoint?

What can I do to help this old guy get online?

Regards,

Flint

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Paul Flint
Barre Open Systems Institute
17 Averill Street
Barre, VT
05641

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