Verizon cellular access & Ubuntu

[Andy Graybeal]

Hi,
I live in a reasonably unpopulated area, but we get pretty good Verizon 
coverage.  I'm looking to get Verizon internet service at home.  We use 
Ubuntu and I'm wondering if anyone has any experience and/or 
recommendations?

Would I expect to have a USB dongle peice of hardware?

I have a toshiba notebook at home that a friend gave to me because the 
screen died on it, it works great hooked up to a external monitor or 
headless. I plan on using this as our cellular gateway.

I look forward to moving away from dial-up modems.  My friend came over 
with his Droid w/ Verizon and we got a whopping 40K!   Beats 3-4K any day!

thanks,
Andy