What modems work with Ubuntu?

[Chanchao]

On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 23:22 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:

> > Let ME tempt the analogy police: Suppose you're an electric razor
> > manufacturer and your razors are charged on 110V.  You find that
> > people in Europe aren't buying your product because they can't 
> > charge on 220V.

> Invalid analogy.  

Guilty as charged. :) 

> Writing a software modem is like 1000x more work than
> writing a driver for a hardware modem, 

Sure, sure. Indeed, arguably, nearly ALL the work involved in making
such a modem is in the software. 

Then again, I bet writing an MS Office or Photoshop equivalent was a lot
of work, too. :)   Or getting Bluetooth to work seamlessly and
transparently is currently still a lot of work, too. 

I worry that things like Bluetooth are sexy enough for developers to do
the work, whereas most developers (who are in the Western world) have
moved on beyond dial-up modems and are all connected on cable or DSL or
other high bandwidth connections.  So nobody is worrying about dial-up
modems anymore, but I'm signaling that it's an issue for the acceptance
of Ubuntu in out of the way places.

Cheers,
Chanchao