Re: verizon dsl

[Leon Raymer <leon@neondsl.com>]

Thanks, Steve. That's what I was hoping but I got side-tracked onto that
darned windows install cd. Shoved it into my wife's windows laptop and
it appears that all the account setup processes are built into the
windows cd. If so, how do I get the authentication info and IP address?
Leon


On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 21:30 -0500, Steve Reindl wrote:
> DSL is DSL, and not specific to any Operating System, as long as they
> provide you with the authentication information and an IP address, it should
> work just fine.
> 
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> From: "Leon Raymer" <leon@neondsl.com>
> To: <silug-discuss@silug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 7:53 PM
> Subject: verizon dsl
> 
> 
> > Verizon has come into my area with dsl where there was previously only
> > Shawneelink and Neon. Verizon is making an offer cutting the monthly
> > cost to about half of the others.
> >
> > But, Verizon seems to be a Windows only operation. Even the install CD
> > requires Windows and the first thing it does is search for the Microsoft
> > JVM. Ouch.
> >
> > Has anyone successfully installed Verizon dsl on a straight Linux
> > machine (Ubuntu, no dual boot)?
> >
> > I like Verizon's price, but not at the expense of going back to Windows.
> >
> > All help appreciated,
> > Leon
> >
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