On 6/26/2011 4:00 PM, g.linuxducks wrote: > I am not going to pursue this and forgetting Linux Dial Up. Sorry I was > not more help. I would be horrified if Linux is not Dial Up Ready out of > the box. It would be the only operating system in the world that is not > then, and the world began on Dial Up which is why I mean horrified. I > mean almost as meaning they are a laughing stock to the average > consumer. It is like they are a work in progress as an operating system > to the average consumer. >
'Dial-up' is not uniformly structured the way that ethernet is. First, to the best of my knowledge, no computer on the retail market today, comes equipped with a dial-up modem card installed, but almost all modern computers have ethernet cards installed, or, more likely, have ethernet on the mainboard. Second, even if you install a dial-up modem card on your computer, you will only be able to connect to your ISP if your ISP supports dial-up, AND you are able to either find or design a 'send-expect' script that works for your specific ISP. I remember having to log onto CompuServe with dial-up... huge pain in the ass, setting up the script. Also, another hurdle is that with Linux, only a few dial-up modems (of the hardware type) will work... Win-Modems will not work with Linux, only with Windows operating systems. Finally, dial-up is pretty slow, compared to ethernet... wifi or wire. -- http://www.robertwittig.com/ http://robertwittig.net/ http://robertwittig.org/ . ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
