... it worked GREAT! Yay! Glad you got things up and connected! I am also curious about Linux in general and it will be fun to do research and see what I can learn. Looks like a steep learning curve. Me too (curious). It does seem a bit steep, but IMO that's part of the fun - always something new t...

I'll post my results with the external modem after I get my hands on one. I hope it works out well for you, as it has for me on the four different computers I've tried it on. Another plus is that it has worked for me on a few other Linux distros, as well (Mint, Lubuntu, Xubuntu) - distros that have...

kevhaw: Barry Kauler creator of Puppy lived in outback Western Australia and only had dialup. To upload his various Puppies he had to drive to Perth and back to Penjori....370kms each way. So if anyone in Linux had dialup support...it was Barry. Try something like Puppy 4.31 etc. Get back to us mat...

Yes, do that but don't that this one "bad" experience with puppy put you off. It's a nice little system to play around with. Best is to try puppy on CD or to use frugal installs. I have 5 operating systems on my old computer and I use them all by way of dual-booting. I have Windows XP Pro ...

Well, I suppose from there you could play around with checking/unchecking the boxes for "carrier check", "stupid mode", etc., and see if that gets you anywhere. As a last resort, maybe Google around for recommended initialization strings that are specific to your hardware. I rec...

nic007 wrote:Try Puppy 412. If that puppy does not work, I don't have much hope. Never a good idea to get rid of windows XP, it leaves you with problems like this. Re-install windows xp if you can't get it going.

Thanks, yeah I will reinstall XP. I have the cd and kit at home so it should be easy enough.

I'm going from memory, but this should be pretty close... Re-run the Connection Wizard, selecting analog/dialup modem - hopefully Puppy identified a modem at boot, and should ask something like "would you like to test now?" or "probe" or whatnot - and go ahead and click "OK...

Thanks for the advice guys! Yes I did correctly enter my ISP dialup number, the password and user ID I use with my ISP is correct also. I did the tests and probes. The modem was recognized and I got the string of letters/numbers. At least I now know that I don't have to enter my DNS number anywhere....

I just tried again and am still having the same issue. When I set up the connect wizard and chose analog dialup, the screen that came up next asked for my password and username but not for the DNS number of my ISP. I can't figure out how to enter this info anywhere. Isn't the DNS number something th...

I'm using the Dell's own built-in soft modem. I have a landline Bell Canada phone line, and it's a low-speed 28kbps connection.

I had my computer repair guy wipe windows xp off of my old Dell Inspiron 1100 and install wary puppy 5.5. I am basically computer illiterate but have decided to try my hand at learning about Linux. In the analog dial-up connection box, the modem was autodetected. At first when I tried to connect to ...