Small/cheap switch with EtherType 0x9100 / tunneling? 2960G?

I have a pair of 2960G switches with vlans I'd like shared over a circuit provided by Yipes. Yipes says in order to pass my tags unmolested I need to hand them ethertype 0x9100 instead of 0x8100. Apparently the command to set this for an interface is
dot1q tunneling ethertype
I only see it mentioned in the docs for 10000 or 12000 series hardware. Can my little 2960G switches pass 0x9100 over the trunk port? If not, what will do it?
Thanks,
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