Ubuntu Dial up settings

[Chanchao]

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 07:05 +0100, crazybilly wrote:

> hmm.  I'm another potential user who's not about to make any sort of
> switch to linux till winmodem support gets a crapload easier.  I don't
> have the skill/patience/luck to wade through all that stuff, and I've
> only got dial-up at home.  I can't afford to screw around w/ learning a
> new operating system at work--the boss wouldn't go for that, and
> learning Linux w/o the internet is a rpitb.
>
> I want to like/use Ubuntu in a bad way, but not being abe to be on
> internet at home is a serious turn-off.

Couldn't agree more.  What I do is I dial up on my wife's notebook that
runs Windows and turn on connection-sharing.  Then connect them with a
crossover LAN cable, and then Ubuntu just connects through Windows. 

Alternatively, go find an old style 'real' hardware modem, preferably an
external one that you connect to your serial port.  Not all computers
these days even have a serial port anymore, but there's things like
USB->Serial which in theory should work. 

For myself I couldn't find a 56K hardware modem, only the (very) old
33k6 one I still had around.. So then connecting through my wife's
laptop is a bit faster.

By the way, I wonder: Could't Wine run a Windows softmodem driver??

Cheers,
Chanchao