winmodem drivers catch-22
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Ubuntu |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
In 7.04, the linmodem/winmodem drivers aren't particularly difficult to install (I imagine, since I never got that far), but all the information from www.linmodem.org and the gzip file that I needed to wget according to the help files are inaccessible without internet access. Clearly, if I need to install modem drivers, I don't have internet access, making it impossible to install. Although I could rig up some ways around it, like saving the appropriate files to a USB drive and then opening them while the liveCD is running, it seems excessively complicated.
I wasn't sure if this was appropriate for a bug report, but because it could create a serious problem for people who wipe their hard drives and install ubuntu without noticing the impossibility of installing the drivers without another source of internet access, it seemed like a Catch-22 that could be taken care of via a reevaluation of the files included within the package.
Thanks, you're all doing wonderful work that's much appreciated!
| Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote | #1 |
This is indeed a problem, however it's not due to a bug. We simply have not added support for these drivers to Ubuntu yet. There is a plan to do so, and you can follow its progress at https:/