Re. Total Confusion
Here are answers to some of the questions that helpful people have posed.
About two hours ago, I installed Debian anew. It was during this
installation that I added the modules parport, etc. . The message at the
time of installation was "installation successful".
I have successfully installed and used earlier versions of Debian and am
familiar with pppconfig.
I know that I am connected because the log says so. I also have an
external, U.S. Robotics, 56K modem, which lights up and used to work with
any version of linux that I tried, not only Debian and Redhat, but
Mandrake, and others.
I have the2.2.r3 version of Debian. The full kernel description is
2.0.38-2.0.38-3.
Even though there has been no break through yet, I appreciate all suggestions.
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