[Bug 42454] Re: Documentation should include greater detail about setting up difficult network hardware

[Matthew East]

Ok, I've had a go at using these instructions to setup the modem on my
laptop, which is an Intel Conexant modem.

I don't think that all the instructions from the wiki are in an
appropriate state to go into the system help, because there are a number
of areas which address Breezy/Dapper only, and a lot of unsupported
drivers are flying around.

Equally, it's clearly not going to be at all possible for a user without
any kind of internet access to get it working without an alternative
internet connection - the scanmodem tool itself and all the drivers need
to be downloaded.

For now, I think the best we can do is provide an introduction to the
topic, how to find out the required driver with scanmodem and a pointer
to useful online documentation about where to find the drivers. That is
already included in the current dialup section of internet.xml. (preview
- http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/C/internet/connect-to-
internet.html#dialup)

Any further detail is going to have to wait until drivers for modems are
consistently provided with Ubuntu or at least the functionality for
adding them semi-automatically is included. For now I'll close this bug.

** Changed in: ubuntu-doc (upstream)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

** Changed in: kubuntu-docs (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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Documentation should include greater detail about setting up difficult network hardware
https://launchpad.net/bugs/42454