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Date:	Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:45:07 -0700
From:	"Virginia R. Hetrick, Ph.D." <drjuice@ieee.org >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Installing DSL

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Hi, Peter, the issue is that the code running the install is a Windoze
app as far as I can tell. It has to run in Windoze so that the
appropriate information is put into the router. I can't even read the
CD in my FreeBSD system and I can normally read my data backups from the
FreeBSD system in myWindoze computer and vice versa. So, it may be that
having a CD written according to ISO standards instead of the Windoze
funky format is the basis for requring a Windoze system.

The other piece is that Verizon apparently went out for the very least
expensive ( read cheep) DLS modii possible.

The Verizon tech support people about had online heart attacks when they
told me to open Outlook Express and I told them it wasn't on the
computer because it's the first thing to be removed. IE is the second
thing to go. So, they plotzed on Thunderbird and on FireFox with a
bunch of I don't really understand these programs. DOH!

v

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Peter Skye wrote:

>Virginia R. Hetrick, Ph.D. wrote:
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>>. . . Verizon's [DSL] requires A windoze computer to program the router
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>Hmm, what do all the Mac users do? Are you sure the router
>configuration isn't done with a web browser (my two Linksys routers both
>have web-based setup)? Try browsing to something like 192.168.1.1 and
>see if you get a router setup screen. (But note there can be some
>incompatibilities -- Firefox can configure my Linksys routers but won't
>show the Linksys DHCP tables.)
>
>- Peter
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