Are there softmodem solutions supported in any ubuntu repository?

[NoOp]

On 04/23/2007 05:55 PM, Peter Garrett wrote:
> 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 :)

That's impressive :-)

> 
>> 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.

And that is the crux of the problem (IMO). I run Ubuntu on 300Mhz/256MB,
350Mhz/256MB, 450Mhz/256MB, 2.4Ghz/512MB & above every day. All of those
computers work just fine & my primary desktop is the 450Mhz. The 450Mhz
runs circles around the 2.4Ghz booted in WinXP. Point being is that old
hardware can run just fine and your point about places or circumstances
that make high speed connections impossible is spot on. Soft/System
Modem support is critical if Ubuntu wish to be:

http://www.ubuntu.com/products/WhatIsUbuntu
<quote>
What does Ubuntu mean?

Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'Humanity to others', or 'I am what I
am because of who we all are'. The Ubuntu distribution brings the spirit
of Ubuntu to the software world.
</quote>

Additionally, soft/system modems are *critical* to mobile backup
communications. I used to travel 200,000 miles per year to many
different countries; I'd be lost without a DU modem & would never
consider Ubuntu today for a mobile user/employee for that very reason.