What modems work with Ubuntu?

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 11:00 +0700, Chanchao wrote:
> Let ME tempt the analogy police: Suppose you're an electric razor
> manufacturer and your razors are charged on 110V.  You find that
> people
> in Europe aren't buying your product because they can't charge on
> 220V.
> "Well, that's not my problem!!", said the razor CEO, "It clearly
> states
> on the box that it requires 110V, so by all means people can go find
> their own charger, or they can go use a different brand of razor!"  No
> problem, right? :)  

Invalid analogy.  Writing a software modem is like 1000x more work than
writing a driver for a hardware modem, IF we even have access to the
hardware specs needed to write one.  Whereas the razor guy could just as
easily make razors that run on 110V or 220V.

Lee