Information on setting up modems

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

On Jul 13, 2006, at 2:40 PM, Nico Veenkamp wrote:
> ...
> I have no modem myself so I could not do some testing and write it up
> for the documentation. But it seems that the lack of modem setup info 
> in the system documentation is a legitimate complaint.
>
> Is this correct or am I just lowing smoke.
> ...

You (and Alastair Otter) are correct: it seems to be a large hole in 
Ubuntu that it doesn't contain software for connecting to the Internet 
by all common methods, and it is a large hole in the shipped help that 
it hardly covers connecting to the Internet at all. Telling people to 
wget a file, or to go online, to get information about going online is 
obnoxious.

Is it now true that all information on help.ubuntu.com is public 
domain? If so, I'll make a patch to incorporate the networking 
information into the Desktop Guide ... minus the parts about going to 
linmodems.org, installing packages, etc, which are similarly begging 
the question.

-- 
Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/