Comment 32 for bug 42454

Ok, I've had a go at using these instructions to setup the modem on my laptop, which is an Intel Conexant modem.

I don't think that all the instructions from the wiki are in an appropriate state to go into the system help, because there are a number of areas which address Breezy/Dapper only, and a lot of unsupported drivers are flying around.

Equally, it's clearly not going to be at all possible for a user without any kind of internet access to get it working without an alternative internet connection - the scanmodem tool itself and all the drivers need to be downloaded.

For now, I think the best we can do is provide an introduction to the topic, how to find out the required driver with scanmodem and a pointer to useful online documentation about where to find the drivers. That is already included in the current dialup section of internet.xml. (preview - http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/C/internet/connect-to-internet.html#dialup)

Any further detail is going to have to wait until drivers for modems are consistently provided with Ubuntu or at least the functionality for adding them semi-automatically is included. For now I'll close this bug.