[AuckLUG] Installing Linux

[Martin Bähr]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 03:37:12PM +0200, Martin Bähr wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 12:48:58AM +1200, Nevyn wrote:
> > Back when I was using dial up, Redhat was my preference. It just
> > seemed to work for me - no modem specific tools. The modem was just
> > seen as a network interface and things like dialing were the
> > equivalent of obtaining an IP address.
> debian and ubuntu do the same, however you still need a modem specific
> tool to configure the conection.

rereading the original mail i just noticed that the configuration was
not the issue but calling up the dialer was. maybe that is the problem
here. possibly richard went about the wrong way to 'call' the dialer?

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