Re: verizon dsl

[Leon Raymer <leon@neondsl.com>]

Okay. I'm going to give it a whirl.
Thanks for your help,
Leon


On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 22:06 -0500, Steve Reindl wrote:
> I'd call their customer support people for help. If they provided you with a
> modem there should be information with it. I don't know about Verizon
> particulars. These truly are questions that you should be asking them.
> 
> It should be pretty simple. Generally now, the supplied modem handles
> address translations automatically and as long as you set your computer up
> to use DHCP, it should just work.
> 
> I say again, it SHOULD just work. Your mileage may vary.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Leon Raymer" <leon@neondsl.com>
> To: <silug-discuss@silug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 10:02 PM
> Subject: Re: verizon dsl
> 
> 
> > 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.
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > 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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