Connecting to the Internet may be easier than you think; Tony begins this two-part series with how to configure your modem. by Tony Mobily Today, many people install Linux on their desktop computers.

Dial-up modems used to be the default way of accessing the Internet, but times have moved on. They’re now largely esoteric relics from a time gone by. With regular old phone lines rather hard to come ...

Apple's MacBook Pro laptop computers no longer have built-in telephone modems for accessing the Internet over a dial-up connection. In certain circumstances, though, dial-up Internet access is the ...

In Part I of this article (see the February 2002 issue of LJ), I explained how to configure the modem. At the end of the article you ended up with a symbolic link called /dev/modem that pointed to the ...