On 20 August 2010 14:50, Chris O'Halloran <cmoman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
http://linuxmint.com/ A little while ago, there was a bit of lament about the lack of dial up modem support for modern distros. I downloaded the latest iso for Linux Mint KDE edition a week or so and was suprised to find that it has KPPP installed by default. Just wondering if linuxmint might be a better option for those without ADSL access.
Thanks for those comments Chris. Were you trying an internal or external modem? Lighthouse Pup seems to be the best live CD distro I've used that is likely to run with an internal modem, but lacks the full function applications - which gives you the confidence to know that you should be able to make any other distro work eventually. I managed to get dialup going by installing Suse 11.3 from a downloaded CD - but had to download some more files from the Internet to install the dialup software. Graham suggested that those files are on the install DVD. As you will have noticed, Slingshot is a "different story" when it comes to dialup. Never found out why the connection failed whereas it was fine with Xtra - and both were fine under Windows. Michael