Demand-dialled modem configuration on Debian (Sarge)
Debian GNU/Linux has excellent configuration dialogues for almost every aspect of the newly installed operating system. One fly in the ointment is that -- just as when I installed Red Hat 6.1 six years ago -- they do not account for people who might want their sysem to automatically dial up to the internet on demand. (For the sake of Google, I mention the terms auto-dial, autodial, and intermittent connection.) Read more