easier dial up configuration

[Tom Pino]

A lot of people in the world use dial up. I did until a couple months ago. This is the first time I have ever NOT used dial up an I hope I will be back somewhere that only has dial up soon.

Ubuntu is my OS, I have some others to play with but this is the OS for me.

Dial up is a pain to configure in Ubuntu. PCLOS-Gnome is easy. Mandriva is easy. Ubuntu should be easy too as it is in every other way.

I realize that Dial up is not important to people that do not use it and consider it old tech. In a lot of the world it is not old tech. It is the ONLY tech for connecting. It may be slow but it works.

It takes a long time to update with dial up bet it can be done and is important to the health of the OS. Upgrading is done by getting a CD from some ground delivery service and doing a clean install.

To sum up, if someone has the time to work on this a bunch of us out here would be really thankful.

[Lightbreeze (nedhoy-gmail)]

Could you give clear steps for how you configure dialup at the moment, and what could be improved, thanks!

[Tom Pino (metalsmith-rangeweb)]

Lightbreeze wrote:
> Could you give clear steps for how you configure dialup at the moment,
> and what could be improved, thanks!
>
>

Currently I am on DSL for the first time in my life (I am 57). My main
OS is Hardy and to configure it I;

in terminal sudo pppconfig

fill it out and save

Click on the Network Manger applet

Click on manual configuration

fill all that out and save it.

Then it works.

I also had Intrepid online dialup. I had 3 installations of it and
could not ever get 2 of them to work. The other worked fine with just
running wvdial from terminal. I never could figure out why it worked
when the others did not.

Other OSs that are easier to configure are Mandriva and PClinuxOS. They
both use the samd config process during the installation process. Three
or four lines to fill out and you are done. Most KDE distros are easy
to configure but I can't stand using them because I am not KDE
compatable (too much like the MS experience).

I am using an internal USR5610c modem for dial up. It was never really
recognized by Ubuntu. The network manager would always say there was no
connection while I was up/down loading something. I knew where it was
only because I had Vista when I installed the modem (had a connexant
winmodem when we bought it - what a piece of crap). It is on ttyS0 but
it is not detected there ever. It is recognized by lspci.

I realize that an external modem is better for Ubuntu. I have too many
peripherals already in very cramped space. And I like USR internals.

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

Thank you for bringing this bug to our attention. However, a paper cut should be a small usability issue , in the default Ubuntu 9.10 install , that affects many people and is quick and easy to fix. So this bug can't be addressed as part of the project.

Although this has certainly to do with usability and I agree that this is annoying, it's not something that's easy to fix or something that's clear at all. This should be properly discussed first. Ubuntu Brainstorm at <http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com> is a good place to place ideas.
For further info about papercuts criteria , pls read > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut

Don't worry though, This bug has been marked as "invalid" ONLY in the papercuts project.