Comment 25 for bug 310331

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I'm sorry to have to say this, but your proposed steps do not work on a fresh Live install of 8.10-desktop-i386.

Here are the problems I saw, when I attempted to follow your instructions:

There is no "Network" entry on the System->Administration menu.

network-manager-gnome is already installed by default.

When I ran it, there was no "connections tab", or "point ot point connection", or "Serial Modem" choices visible anywhere in the program.

I don't know what version you tested your instructions on, but it certainly wasn't a clean install of 8.10... Please re-open the bug.