Ubuntu Dial up settings

[Chanchao]

On อ., 2006-05-02 at 21:38 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:

> > Chances are Ubuntu won't work with your modem.  It basically only works
> > with old style modems that you plug into a serial port.
> 
> This is simply, shall we say, inaccurate. There's a whole website devoted
> to this, namely:
> 
> http://linmodems.org/

Ahhhh...  you made me go through all that again just in case... Result:
after a lot of work, running scripts and checking the minute details of
the resulting data files is that I have to buy a US$ 20 Linuxant driver
which actually isn't available for my kernel version. (Dapper)

I think that's pretty close to "It doesn't work with Ubuntu". 

Things that "Do work with Ubuntu" typically 'just work', are installed
by default or as a very worst case can be easily installed using
Synaptic.  All this crap is just FAR more than I'm willing to handle.
(Even though I just tried again to make sure..)  Wasting an hour to fail
to get a modem to work..   

(Conexant HSF modem, built into my laptop)

> Secondly, at this point we don't even know what kind of modem the OP is
> trying to use.

Well I can't even FIND legacy hardware modems on sale anymore, (other
than perhaps second hand dump-markets) so chances are it's a Winmodem. 

> Chanchao, please don't discourage people on the basis of inaccurate and
> misleading information.

Sorry, I just get VERY frustrated when I can't get very basic and
absolutely essential hardware to work, especially on an operating system
that 'just works' for everything else.

Cheers,
Chanchao