Re: [Sheflug] Tiscali Broadband

[lesleyb <lesley.binks [at] xxxxxxxxx>]

zoebutler [at] tiscali.co.uk wrote:
> Hi everyone. 
>  
> This is my first post. I have Red Hat Linux installed and a Broadband
> Account with Tiscali. 
> I need to download a Linux driver to start using email and the Internet. 
> I requested help from Tiscali but not received a reply. 
>  
> Is there anyone who uses Tiscali who can help me? 
>  
> Best wishes,
>
>  
Zoe

Hello and welcome to Linux.

Personally I'd get rid of Tiscali and go for something better as an ISP 
but that stems from my experience of them in 2000.

You've been fed a load of hogwash about your ISP requiring drivers. It's 
also sadly still highly unlikely you will get support from an ISP for 
Linux because each distro (Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, Ubuntu, Debian etc 
etc ) does things in slightly different ways and this makes it difficult 
for ISP's to be able to offer support.  You may be lucky if technical 
support people at your ISP are motivated to provide generalised Linux 
support.

Drivers are for hardware.  We need to know what hardware you are using 
to connect to the 'net to be able to advise you further.  (I've had a 
quick look at the Tiscali site and they don't specify what modem they 
send you.  Probably the cheapest they can find in order to maximise 
their profits?  ).

As far as using email is concerned, you need an email client.  This is a 
program that can be setup to collect email from email servers and send 
email out via those same servers.  It doesn't need any drivers once your 
Internet connection is working properly.  I use Thunderbird but there 
are others out there.  Thunderbird is also available for Windows 
platforms so you might want to look at what's required to set it up to 
send and retrieve email under Windows.  That part will be the same under 
any Linux platform.

Here are some urls that might help you

http://www.linmodems.org/

http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

http://www.demon.net/

http://www.zen.co.uk/


Regards

Lesley
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