Re: linux and verizon dsl

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From: "Denzil L. Kelly" <http://www.earthlink.net/~dkelly6>
 > Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 20:31:16 -0500
 >
 > I am getting verizon dsl within 2 weeks. I am also planning on using 
 > exclusively with linux. I've been informed by verizon that I have to use 
 > the activation code to get started. How do you get around this with linux?

I'm sorry to report that I found no way around this.  I happen to have had an
old computer sitting around with Windows on it and got things to work that
way.

Once I got past the activation, I threw away (well, stored away :) the
hard-drive with Windows on it, installed Linux instead, and plugged in a
Linksys router with my Linux machines behind it.  Works great now.

If you can possibly avoid Verizon, I would go with SpeakEasy instead.  (SE has
a 1-year commitment, which I couldn't make, which is why I stick with sucky
Verizon.)