Most Linux users probably use a high-speed internet connection, but a lot of us still use dial-up. Computers built for Windows have built-in dial-up modems, known as winmodems. Quite often, they don't work well with Linux.
If you use dial-up and want to use Linux, the first order of business should be to acquire an external serial modem. I got my first one when the folks at one of my jobs were about to discard it. My others have been used ones that I found online. You can find one for under $15 bucks.
They've all worked fine under Linux. Struggling to get winmodems to work with Linux is a big problem for dial-up users, one that can be completely avoided with the use of an external serial modem. Definitely worth looking into.
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