Hi Rob The dial up issue was to to with pulse or tone and since the location in question was an older one with pulse it proved to be a tricky one to solve. However ! with JF's help and putting a capital P where the number for an outside line would go it works just fine in Ubuntu ( I used gnome ppp and ran a script to run it in the top panel as an added tool). So don't discard Ubuntu as I think its more of sorting the actual requirements for each given circumstance. Hope this helps. Eric On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:00 PM, <linux-request [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca> wrote: > Send Linux mailing list submissions to > linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > linux-request [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > > You can reach the person managing the list at > linux-owner [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Linux digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. CD for library via C4C (Rob Echlin) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 08:17:17 -0800 (PST) > From: Rob Echlin <rob [ at ] echlin [ dot ] ca> > Subject: [OCLUG-Tech] CD for library via C4C > To: linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > Message-ID: <98401 [ dot ] 39825 [ dot ] qm [ at ] web59513 [ dot ] mail [ dot ] ac4 [ dot ] yahoo [ dot ] com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hi > After the last meeting some of us discussed that OCLUG might provide a CD for > C4C to provide via the Ottawa Public Library. > I am willing to muck about with an ISO, but would like some input. > > 1) Tools: > I have looked at Wikipedias page on tools for modifying ISOs, and concluded that > K3B would work for me. > So I downloaded it today, and will try it. Any better suggestions? > > 2) Dialup > However, I recall that Eric had problems with Ubuntu and dialup. > Does anyone have experience with a distro that you can just > - install on your computer, > - set the phone number, username, password > - plug in the phone cord > And it will work? > > How about Mint? It's derived from Ubuntu, or at least the main variant is. > Suggestions? > How about Fedora? Anyone know? > > 3) Pictures > - A shout out to the Linux Photography SIG here! > - Desktop picture(s) > - for when you boot up as a live CD, and maybe for the default image when you > log in the first time. > - Anything else? > If you provide a JPG, with added text and stuff, please let me have the GIMP > file as well, with text and overlays on different layers, so I can make minor > tweaks if needed. > - 16 x10, 16x9, and 4x3 ratios are probably all useful, which leads to the minor > tweaks I mentioned. > - > > > -- > Rob Echlin, B. Eng. > 613-266-8311 - Ottawa, ON > Blog: http://talksoftware.wordpress.com/ > - I am a software developer and proponent of Agile Software Development > processes. > - Agile delivers: faster to market, higher quality, what the customer actually > needs. More satisfying, more fun! http://www.therecycledteenager.blogspot.com/ Leave the Windoze closed :-)) Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu (humanity to others)is designed to fix. But K-eep L-ocktite R-eady in the D-irt R-iding Z-one