Comment 1 for bug 10947

I'd like to add my agreement to the sentiments expressed above. I'm a new
Ubuntu user and I've just installed. It was a bit of pain to get connected
through my dial up connection. Here's my story.

Firstly, I have an ethernet card which but it normally is not plugging in to
anything. When I installed, I configured it to have the static IP of 192.168.121.1.

After booting up for the first time, I set about getting a ppp link going over
dial up. I fired up "Networking" under Computer-> System Configuration and it
looked like the right place to be. I added my a new connection with the right
settings Once it seemed to have activated the interface, I tried to access the
web. Nothing would resolve. After some messing around, I figured out that I
needed to disable eth0 for things to work.

Apart from now being able to connect, I am still far from happy. Here's what's
still broke:
  - I have added the modem lights applet to the panel, but it doesn't work.
  - running pon as my normal user gives this: Error: only members of the 'dip'
group can use this command.
  - running pon as root gives this: /usr/sbin/pppd: In file
/etc/ppp/peers/provider: unrecognized option '/dev/modem'
  - you can't run wvdial as a normal user because you don't have permissions to
read /etc/wvdial.conf
  - running wvdial as root gives:
--> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.54.0
--> Cannot open /dev/modem: No such file or directory
--> Cannot open /dev/modem: No such file or directory
--> Cannot open /dev/modem: No such file or directory

All the above points are not necessarily problems per se, but an easy and idiot
proof way to get up and running as a dial up user would be great.