Comment 8 for bug 42454

> It would be good to see this covered, but I wonder if it is within the
> scope of the Desktop Guide? Is there a package or packages
> containing various modem drivers, especially the many different
> winmodem drivers, in Ubuntu?

The desktop guide is a very valuable source of information imho. Compared to the Windows Help, it's a gold mine... But it can (should) be expanded, by adding needed sections.

ubuntu's modem support is bad (to say it kindly). There are too many specific ways to make a winmodem work (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DialupModemHowto ). And the available ubuntu packages (ltmodem in restricted modules and sl-modem-daemon+sl-modem-source and that's all I think) are not enough.

Without a guide on howto set up your modem (or your wifi), you cannot look at the wiki pages linked in the offline documentation.

The guides are ready to be copy-pasted to the documentation as sections (especially the winmodem wiki and the bcm43xx wiki). If only I knew how to write at least the modem part in a "Ubuntu Desktop Guide" format, I would be done with these two :)

I'm pretty sure this can be done bf the dapper release (~one month to go) if the review process is not too strict, but I'm not sure whether there is someone (with skills) willing to deal with it ;)