u can use wvdial or pon,
both make the use of pppd.
check wvdial man pages, and the ppp howto. You must configure several
things before u can use dial up connections.

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Penguin wrote:

> How do I bring a dialup PPP link with a shell? It's `ifup <iface-name>' or 
> something? Is that all? How do I tell when the link is down if I have a shell 
> script for example downloading the latest Debian dist? Can I poll/interrogate 
> something which will tell me?
> 
> Cheers
> James
> 
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