>> "MM" == Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org> writes: MM> I'm sitting behind a telephone system that requires me to dial a 0 just to MM> get a normal dialtone. Thus ppp refuses to work. I tried removing the ABORT MM> NO DIALTONE line in the setup but that doesn't work either. It seems MM> pppconfig doesn't handle or ask for this at all. You have to alter the modem initialisation. Try at&fx3 Ciao, Martin PS: F'up set.