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 ...

Trying to help out a friend's office which wants to replace the Verizon provided Westell 327w DSL modem+router with a Cisco 877 ISR for use with a Verizon Business DSL line.<BR><BR>Typically, in ...

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 ...