Modem and Network Connection

[Moniz Family]

Derek Broughton wrote:

>John M. Moniz wrote:
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>>I recently installed Ubuntu 6.06 from a live CD to my mother-in-law's PC
>>and there were a few things I am not yet happy with. But I'll just stick
>>to the modem and networking issues.
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>>At boot-up:
>>1) When the PC boots up, the modem dials the ISP all on its own. That's
>>actually pretty annoying as the first task always has to be to break the
>>connection unless she's immediately going to the internet. I could not
>>find a configuration to disable the dialing at boot and I don't like my
>>solution, which was to rename /etc/ppp/dial_on_boot (I'm going by memory
>>on the file name, so may be slightly off). There's probably a
>>configuration somewhere for this and it would be nice to know what it is.
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>It's a long time since I used dial-up, but I'm sure a gui would have just
>done what you did :-)
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I searched for it and could not find a gui to do it. I searched enough 
to be convinced that there isn't one.