[Spec winmodem-support] Winmodems need be supported out of the box

[Rich Johnson]

On Tuesday 19 December 2006 12:59, t u wrote:
| Matthew East wrote:
| > Hi,
| >
| > * Matthew Paul Thomas:
| >> On Dec 19, 2006, at 6:17 AM, Scott James Remnant wrote:
| >>> Specification changed by Scott James Remnant:
| >>>
| >>>     Approver: Colin Watson => Scott James Remnant
| >>> ...
| >>
| >> Hi Scott
| >>
| >> The documentation team would like to know how modem support will work
| >> (if at all) in Feisty, so that the help can say something useful about
| >> it. <https://launchpad.net/bugs/42454>
| >
| > Thanks for this MPT. I also grabbed Matthew Garrett on irc recently to
| > ask him what the recommended way to support modems is, now that the
| > scanmodem tool doesn't work on Ubuntu - so I'm adding him to CC: as well.
| >
| > Matt
|
| Does it really not work? Did / can anyone try (I don't have edgy)?
|
| If it doesn't: part of the spec is to be in contact with linmodems.org
| so we can somehow offer winmodem support.
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I can play around with it to see if it works or to find an alternative. BUT, I 
don't have a dial-up provider (unless Comcast has a dial-up number I can try 
for free). I can at least see if it connects and dials to a telephone though.

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Rich Johnson
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