Yes pppconfig has worked fine for me in the past with redhat
and debian. it seems to me all that was required was to identify the
modem and put in the phone number to dial. That was with an external
serial modem, I never did have any luck trying to get a winmodem to work
on linux. KA9QLQ huh? I used to hold a ham ticket for years, but was
inactive for several years whille working construction down south and my
ticket expired. I was K3SFA. I have been seriously thinking of getting
it back again.