Ubuntu 9.10 laptop

[Chris Taylor]

I'm off to the Philippines to visit my wife's family.
they only have a dialup prepaid service in the house 

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:37:50 +1100, Dave Hall wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> 
> On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 22:11 +0000, Chris Taylor wrote:
>> Hi I'm off on a holiday soon overseas and I don't know the first thing
>> about setting up a Dialup internet can some kind person help me out
> 
> The modem in your laptop is most likely a winmodem, and either need
> nonfree software or not work at all.  Dialup is really annoying to use
> when overseas, and really expensive if using iPass.
> 
> Where are you off to?  In Europe and North America wifi is everywhere.
> Get the right deal and wifi can be a cost effective way to to stay in
> touch while away.
> 
> 3G roaming fees are insane too.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Dave

I think I had it working with 8.10 live cd