can someone explain to me how to hook up dial up for my neighbors computer. I maintain their computer for them, Recently they had financial problems and went to dial-up from dsl..
I went to the Mepis network assistant but I am at a loss about what to do.

Have you tried gppp?
Admin/Tools>Tools>Dial-up

I've never tried it myself, but it 'should' get you a dial-up connection.

lydia wrote:can someone explain to me how to hook up dial up for my neighbors computer. I maintain their computer for them, Recently they had financial problems and went to dial-up from dsl..
I went to the Mepis network assistant but I am at a loss about what to do.

like Anti, I have nearly no experience with dialup. However, I know of a few issues with dialup and linux, in general.
First, many (most) built in modems are not true modems, because they offload some of the functionality of a true hardware modem to the operating system....
....which would be Windows.
These evil devices are referred to as"winmodems", and are largely unsupported in linux in general.
You might try starting here.

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If this doesn't work, try to locate true hardware modem and use that. They are pricier than winmodems, so expect to pay more. If memory serves, US Robotics makes some good ones, or used to.
(With apologies to Nestor and Isaac Asimov...)

Oh, yeah. You might try posting the output of
lspci just to ascertain what hardware you are dealing with....