Modem and Network Connection

[Bill Marcum]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:48:22 -0500, John M. Moniz 
  <john.moniz at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> I recently installed Ubuntu 6.06 from a live CD to my mother-in-law's PC 
> and there were a few things I am not yet happy with. But I'll just stick 
> to the modem and networking issues.
>
> At boot-up:
> 1) When the PC boots up, the modem dials the ISP all on its own. That's 
> actually pretty annoying as the first task always has to be to break the 
> connection unless she's immediately going to the internet. I could not 
> find a configuration to disable the dialing at boot and I don't like my 
> solution, which was to rename /etc/ppp/dial_on_boot (I'm going by memory 
> on the file name, so may be slightly off). There's probably a 
> configuration somewhere for this and it would be nice to know what it is.
>
Ubuntu will try to dial in to set the time.  You can edit 
/etc/default/ntpdate to prevent this by setting NTPSERVERS="".




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