More about getting an address book to dial the phone. 4713

In the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article

Yes, it's trying to be helpful, and not bother you with technical details.

Most people don't have more than one modem installed. As for dialing method, it buttumes tone dialing, as that is fairly widely used. You could file a bug report with the program author if you feel otherwise.

That's great dude - but to mess with hardware, you need to be root. If you wish to run as a user (highly desired), then you might want to have you don't want everyone to run the binary. There are several other ways to do this, including a User Control mechanism and sudo.

compton ~$ whatis whatis whatis (1) - search the whatis database for complete words compton ~$ apropos whatis apropos (1) - search the whatis database for strings whatis (1) - search the whatis database for complete words compton ~$

Try those two man pages first. Once you understand what they are looking at, try changing the keyword you are looking for, such as

apropos permissions man chmod

Please understand this isn't Windoze. This isn't OS-2. This is different. The various GUI desktops try to make things appear as they would on a windoze box, but they've still got to play by the rules. If it makes you feel any better, I chucked both KDE and Gnome desktops as a waste of CPU cycles and diskspace - but then, I've been using UNIX for more than twenty years.

That "ATI Query" is a technique to try to find the modem for you. It tries sending ATI commands (see your modem manual) to each of the serial ports, hoping to find the modem. It won't work if you have a non-standard configuration (which includes using a PCI real modem), nor will it work with non-modems. See the Modem-HOWTO. By the way, it helps if you give details, like what kind of a modem you are using.

Rather than fumbling around clicking on icons and randomly wasting your time, try the man page (man kppp and man pppd) and the fine HOWTOs. The PPP-HOWTO would be a good place to start. You are dealing with a GUI application, and these make buttumptions. In a lot of cases, they are correct - sometimes they aren't. That is the nature of GUIs. You could do this manually, where you control things, but that takes more knowledge.

Can't help there - I don't need windoze wannabe programs.

The few times a day I dial out of area, I have to include an area-access code. The rest of the time, the calls are local, and do not require such a code. This seems to be standard.

Then maybe you shouldn't be wasting your time trying to use this O-S. It's obviously not meeting your expectations. I realize you are having a hard time, and are frustrated, but this isn't windoze nor OS-2. There is an enormous amount of documentation to help, but you have to try to use it. Even scanning something like the 'user-guide' and 'sag' (system is a place to start.

Old guy