[oclug] BoldStreet wireless - tried it?

[Raj]

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 21:31, Andrew Clunis wrote:
> Hey, Dan...
> 
> hmm.  Boldstreet has always worked for me with GNU/Linux and mozilla.
> You're supposed to get redirected to "click here to activate your free
> trial" page when you go a page other than boldstreet.com.  You aren't
> doing any kind of DNS magic on your laptop, are you?
> 

works for me too, with linux/mozilla.
--Raj.

> Regards,
> Andrew
> 
> On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 20:52 -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> > Has anyone tried BoldStreet wireless?  I ask because I've tried twice 
> > without success.  I was trying with Konquerer, Links, and Opera to 
> > get an authorization prompt, but no luck.
> > 
> > I spoke with both BoldStreet and Toshiba today about this. It was 
> > probably 8 phone calls for a total of an hour or so talking to 
> > people.  I could get an IP address, browse to 
> > http://www.boldstreet.com/ and http://www.surfhere.com/ (i.e. the 
> > whitelisted sites), but could not get anything else.
> > 
> > The final conversation with Toshiba mentioned IE and Netscape, and 
> > broswers which support forced redirects(? I think that's what they 
> > said).  So now I'm wondering if anyone has succeeded with non-MS and 
> > BoldStreet.
> > 
> > Thanks.
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