Are there softmodem solutions supported in any ubuntu repository?

[Peter Garrett]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:10:00 -0700
NoOp <glgxg at mfire.com> wrote:

> I wouldn't recommend doing *anything* "Ubuntu" from a dialup
> modem. 

I wouldn't *recommend* it either - but I used Ubuntu from late 2004 until
mid 2006 with a dial-up modem, and it worked just fine after configuring
pppconfig. During that time I installed both xubuntu-desktop and
kubuntu-desktop over dial-up, and quite a few applications. That *was* an
external serial hardware modem, though, and installing apps from the
internet was slow, of course. Those shipit CDs came in handy :)

> Ubuntu seriously lacks any reasonable softmodem/built-in DU modem
> support.

Linux in general lacks softmodem support, and that is unlikely to change,
since the move almost everywhere is towards "broadband", and since the
manufacturers are uncoöperative. Unfortunately, many of the people who
could benefit from Ubuntu are in places or circumstances that make high
speed connections impossible, either because of cost, or because the only
alternative is dial-up.

It is quite possible to have a good experience of Ubuntu with dial-up,
though, provided that the modem used is as above. 

I did , anyway :) My newish adsl2+ is much better, I admit !

Peter