On Friday 20 Aug 2010 15:28:31 Chris O'Halloran wrote:
I'll give it another go and see if my laptop internal modem goes with it.
I'll sure an external modem would be fine.
Cheers,
Chris
The dialup support seems to be KDE thing. From doing a little research the distros that install KDE have the dialup support. Ironically, the best way to get Gnome dialup support is to install KDE. I managed to get dialup working in Ubuntu but I had to run the dialer as root from a terminal... sorry sudo. ;) Don't hold out much hope for your laptop modem, invariably they're winmodems Cheers GL
On 20 August 2010 15:17, Michael McDonald <mikencolleen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
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