Dial-up Modems no longer supported???

[Chris]

kppp worked for a friends laptop with bell phone line.
I live on the Bruce Peninsula we still have Dinosaurs. lol.

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:

> 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>
>> Freenode: cyphermox, Jabber: mathieu.tl at gmail.com
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