Dial-up Modems no longer supported???

[Bob Jonkman]

I've been trying to get an old laptop (Toshiba Satellite 1800) running 
XUbuntu for a friend, who only has dial-up access. So, having an easy 
dial-up configuration available is still important.  There's no way 
she'll ever launch a terminal window to do anything.

I'm actually leaning away from Ubuntu-derived distributions, since the 
1024x768 screen won't display more than 800x600 for any *buntu I've 
tried.  Sabayon (from an old Linux Magazine DVD) has no trouble with the 
screen, so if I can get it to do dialup that'll be what goes on the laptop.

If we can get something working with Natty XUbuntu I'm quite willing to 
help...

--Bob.


On 11-02-21 03:17 PM, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Alfred<alfred.s at nexicom.net>  wrote:
> [...]
>> 9:10 cost me way more than Windows ever did, because of this little Speed
>> Bump! It took weeks to be able to get on the internet, with Dial-up.
>>
> Hi Alfred,
>
> I appreciate the issues you've been facing. Let's see if there is
> something that can be done *now* to make installing Natty as seemless
> as possible. Perhaps you could tell us (or me offlist, if you prefer)
> more about what you use to connect, or how you did to get your system
> ready for connecting?
>
> If there is something we can get done in time, then we can improve the
> dial-up experience a bit.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre<mathieu.tl at gmail.com>
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