DSL & linux

[Robert Meyer]

I've done it for both my father and myself.  The big problem that you're going
to run into is that they INSIST on you installing their software and then going
through the whole registration process on a Windoze box.  If you call up their
tech support to get online, they'll give you a hard time 'cuz of their
'policy'.

Having said that, if you call up the tech support and talk to them, you might
be able to get them to give you the username and password.  If not, they WILL
give you the username.  Hang up with tech support, call back and say you forgot
your password.  They'll set a new password and give it to you.  The office of
the secretary will disavow all knowledge of your existance if you are caught...
:-)

Just hope that you don't get the same tech, twice in a row...

I then went into the configuration tool on Mandrake 10 and set up an 'ADSL´
connection.  Verison uses PPPoE to do it's stuff so this is a simple thing. 
After I proved the connection works, I jacked into my WRT54G (Linux based)
wireless router and set up the connection with the username and password that I
got.  It works fine and I have never had a problem with it.

Something that I noticed recently is that on business accounts, Verison has
started shipping Westell wireless routers to the customer.  This router has
four ethernet ports and a wireless connection that all work from the same DHCP
pool.  I haven't set one of these devices up, yet, so I don't know what the
process is to get the username and password into them.  They provide a CD with
the thing but I don't know if you have to use it or not.  If somebody gets to
do this, post it to the list so we have the information on it.  I'm quite
curious, at this point.

Cheers!

Bob
--- ron browning <ron_browning14223 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Any hook up Linux to Verizon DSL?  Any basic HowTo?
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