Does Verizon DSL work with Linux? (The reps gave me different answers)

[morgothaod]

1 told me yes, 1 told me no, and 1 told me she thought so. I don't know who to believe. I have Ubuntu 10.04.

[jmw1950]

All your system sees from the DSL equipment is an ethernet gateway, wether that is FiOS, DSL, Microwave, Wi-Max or something else doesn't matter. As long as your operating system can deal with an ethernet connection and DHCP service , it should work.

[somegirl]

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@jmw1950 wrote:

All your system sees from the DSL equipment is an ethernet gateway, wether that is FiOS, DSL, Microwave, Wi-Max or something else doesn't matter. As long as your operating system can deal with an ethernet connection and DHCP service , it should work.

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Just don't expect Verizon to give you much in the way of tech support. They support Windows, and *kind of* support Macs, but for Linux you're on your own. (Unless you get really lucky and happen to get the one agent in hundreds that actually knows enough about it to help you.)

[VZ_Ron]

Hey morgothaod, you should have no problem connecting to the wireless router once your uncle knows the WEP Key on the router and he enters it in correctly.  

[gldvorak]

I am running Kubuntu 10.10 and have no problems, it was a much earlier version when I first got the service. I connected immediately once the line was up.  I think that I have had on;y two brief outages in the last few years.

[smith6612]

Verizon DSL works with Linux without an issue. I have several Linux machines on my network at home. All that was needed was a simple plugging in of the Ethernet cable and the PC obtained all needed info via DHCP from my router (non-Verizon). If you're using Wireless on the Linux box, it's just a simple matter of connecting it up to the wireless network.

If this is a new DSL installation, Verizon's setup utility will probably not run under Linux since Verizon only supports Windows and Max OS (which is UNIX-based, close enough). I haven't given it a shot via WINE, but there is truthfully no need to run it. Most areas run OpenPPPoE or DHCP, meaning all you need to do is disable the modem's Walled Garden via the web browser after it first connects and you're online; essentially a "dumb pipe."