On Tue, May 8, 2012 01:16, Paul Zimmerman wrote: > Why is it so difficult to get dialup to work in Linux? It has been this > way for many years, too. I tried a different distro in 1996 when dialup > modems were still the main means of Internet access for most home users, > and it was painfully difficult then, as well. >
I still use - kind of - dialup today. The usb 3g modem is used like a dialup modem, and vwdial is the way to go. I think I used vwdial back in the '90s but I'm not sure. It was not hard then, and not hard now. I had a LAN back then, and a linux machine dialing up every hour, sending pending emails and downloading incoming using fetchmail. Life was quite similar to what it is now, email wise. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
