I seem to be able to get on the internet now. For those who helped me and any one else interested, I offer my tentative explanation for criticism.
When I installed Debian, I included diald. However, in setting up diald, I had a problem in that I have pulse dialing and there was no way (I thought) to configure it. Diald turns on the modem when data is being transferred and turns it off otherwise. When I tried to use ppp, kppp, and wvdial, they were superseded by diald because no data was waiting to be transferred. Diald stopped them from being authorized. Last night, I edited the diald.conf by changing my telephone number in the Windows XP way, i.e. by putting a "P" in front of the number. Since then, diald is in control and connects, whenever I want to send or receive data, automatically turning off the modem, when data is not flowing, as it is not as I compose this message. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
