On Sun, 05 Mar 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<DUyOf.190$sL2.155@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.ne t>, (Ctrl¤+/Alt+¤/Del¤+)
wrote:

>I don't know if my modem is already being recognized, don't know where to
>go to check, don't know where to go to type in the right information.

'less /var/log/messages' without the quotes, then use the up and down
arrows on your keyboard to find the boot messages that refer to the serial
port. Press 'q' to quit. They'll look something like this:

Aug 21 16:23:27 Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS
SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
Aug 21 16:23:27 ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Aug 21 16:23:27 ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Aug 21 16:23:27 ttyS3 at 0x0e800 (irq = 11) is a 16550A

Here, ttyS0 and ttyS1 are the on-board serial ports. ttyS3 is a PCI
modem. If this command does not show a modem, then look at the output
of the 'lspci -vv' command looking for Serial hardware. You may want to
read the Serial-HOWTO and Modem-HOWTO

-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 338050 Jun 17 2005 Modem-HOWTO
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 268131 Feb 20 13:59 Serial-HOWTO

on your system - should be in /usr/share/HOWTO/ I suspect. Use the 'less'
command to read them - 'zless' if the actual filenames end with '.gz'.

>If I even had the right info. typed in, I am not even sure how to hit
>the connect button if I did, don't know where it is.

I'm not using Ubuntu, but it comes with some applications that do a lot
of the setup for you.

>I use People PC to connect to the Internet, but do not know things like
>the host name, domain name, Dns servers, etc...

You're posting from windoze of some version. If you are using windows NT,
w2k, or XP, the command "ipconfig /all" will list them for you. If you are
using Windows 9X, ME then winipcfg and the more button will tell you.

What you actually need for configuration things (other than the modem stuff)
is phone number, user names, password, and the IP addresses of the DNS servers.
Where these go depends on the "tool" you are using to connect. Unlike windoze
(where the only tool is 'Dial Up Networking'), *nix has many different tools
available. I don't know which one you would be using.

>Now I do believe that what is called the IP Address is 4.88.72.201 and
>know that my modem is on com 3.

[compton ~]$ host 4.88.72.201
201.72.88.4.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer
dialup-4.88.72.201.Dial1.Atlanta1.Level3.net
[compton ~]$

That's a "point of presence" service. "peoplepc.com" has contracted to other
providers such as Level3.net to provide a dial-in service in various cities.
Asking a whois server about 'peoplepc.com', I'm told they are actually using
EarthLink.net services. The "com 3" suggests an internal modem, which if
the BIOS sets things up the same way might be /dev/ttyS2 in Linux.

>My computer is a Dell B110/2.5GB Celeron/512MB RAM, 56k Modem, for what
>that may be worth.

Can't say - I've never used a Dell either.

Old guy