phone dialer, second try

I asked this once before and the silence was deafening. I find it hard to believe that nobody on this list dials their phone using the addressbook on their computer? I've searched Freshmeat, Dave Central, SourceForge and google, I've found no addressbook for linux that will dial a phone # using my modem. I must have missed the most simple solution. Ideally I would like to use KAddressbook for this function, can it be done? -- dh I've been awake: 2 hours 15 minutes Suse Linux 7.2 professional kernel 2.4.17, xFree86 4.2.0, kde 2.2.2