Supported winmodems need to be supported out of the box
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Baltix |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Mantas Kriaučiūnas | ||
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I think I collected enough data for this (and I'm already too late for Dapper).
Without the modem connection, the user cannot connect to the repos and get the files s/he needs for his/her modem. But without these files, a modem user cannot connect to the net.
Also, broadband usage is not widespread everywhere, and in some countries hardmodems are either unavailable or expensive.
Please see this thread (ignore my badly written first post) to see that out of 422 users, 292 supported winmodems to be supported out of the box.
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Even though an extensive collaboration with linmodems.org is ideal, for the time being, may be we can just give an efficient out-of-the-box winmodem support. But still, a collarboration between Ubuntu developers and linmodems.org people would be most advantageous and profitable for the winmodem'ed linux users.
Changing to "wishlist". It's still a feature request even though it is _critical_ in nature...