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fixedbylinux.com; By Ken Starks 		Mail this story
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I sat down with Brenda and began writing out some things she needed to know and asked her about any particular filters she might want on the system. It wasn't five minutes into our talk when Arlene pulled at my sleeve. "Which one is the DVD burner?" I looked at her then over at the computer. Evelyn had already found K3b and had hooked her Ipod to the machine, using Songbird to manage the sync. The computer had been on less than ten minutes. What many adults must go into forums and ask, these kids figured out in minutes and without a bit of help. And some wonder why we do this thing we do...Pictures of this family can be seen on this blog.

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Comments (4)

DarrenR114 ·
Ken,

It was nice to read about this success story.

I have a question on your overall project: Do you have any "standard" setup for those locales that are limited to dial-up access?

Thanks.
number6x ·
Find an external modem Then see if your distro has wvdial http://freshmeat.net/projects/wvdial/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wvdial

It is easy to run from the command line.

debian was always able to configure my external standard modem with no problems during an install. Other distros varied from release to release.
DarrenR114 ·
I like the idea of using an external modem - do you know of anyone who has had success using a USB external modem with Linux? I'm afraid to just buy one and find out that it doesn't work because I don't have Windows on any of my PCs.

number6x ·
I would be afraid that most USB modems were winmodems that relied on windows based drivers to work.

most of the older serial port modems work perfectly well with Linux out of the box and require no configuration.

here is an example of some that actually mention Linux in their supported OS: http://www.zoom.com/products/dial_up_external_serial.html

definitely read the modem howto: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO-2.html

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