Comment 4 for bug 379781

Thank you very much for this.

Your revised instructions are certainly clearer than before. I followed
these instructions, but when I did instruction 16 "click on Close" the
window disappeared, leaving me in doubt as to how to follow instruction 17
"ensure the connection is ticked in the connections tab"

I repeated all the instructions in section 6 as far as your instruction
16, inserting a tick to the left of the Point to Point connection box
immediately after doing instruction 4 "Select Point to Point connection".

Neither of these gave me a connection.

Could it be that the place where I went wrong was instruction 10 "Choose
the modem settings you require"? Earlier on the computer had told me (in
response to my typing sudo martian_modem ) that the port to use was
/dev/ttySM0 but this was not one of the options offered; I chose the most
similar option,
/dev/ttyS0 but maybe I should have done something else ?!?

OP

> Section 7 would require a working connection, which is why it isn't
> opening the requested page.
>
> There is some ambiguity as to the DNS entry so I've patched it to read:
>
> 12. Select the DNS tab
> 13. In the DNS Servers section, click Add
> 14. In the highlighted text box enter your ISP's DNS
> 15. If you have a second DNS, repeat the process
> 16. Click Close
> 17. Ensure the connection is ticked in the connections tab and your modem
> connection should now connect
> 18. Click Close
>
> If this still doesn't work or you need to make any changes, let me know
> - I don't have a modem connection to test this with.
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Medium
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu)
> Status: Incomplete => In Progress
>
> --
> Section 7.1.3 of Help pages produces "cannot display location
> "ftp://<email address hidden>"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379781
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>
> Status in “ubuntu-docs” source package in Ubuntu: In Progress
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: ubuntu-docs
>
> What I expected to happen was to find myself connected to ftp.ubuntu.com
>
> What I am trying to do is connect the computer to a different ISP but the
> Help pages don't tell me how to do this. Instruction 7.1.3 says "enter the
> server address" but I don't know the server address. Does this perhaps
> mean the Doman Name Server or DNS?
>

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