Dear Cooker Team, I want to raise an issue with the cooker team regarding Winmodems. I recommend Mandrake to everyone I know. As such I get calls to help with installs all the time. These people are ALWAYS encouraged by me to either buy ML or join the club. They almost always do once they see how great ML is. I would say that as the premiere desktop distro, a concerted effort should be made to support winmodems when possible and include all available drivers in the distro along with the tools to autodetect them and install as appropriate. I would say that at least 70-80% of my installs run into a winmodem problem. A newbie has no clue how to go to linmodems.org and get drivers/install etc.
When these winmodems are detected, the installer simply suggests the cryptic "please visit linmodems.org for more information" or something to that effect. Why are the available winmodem drivers not simply included in the distro?? This would be a major plus if Mandrake added this and it would put it even further ahead of the other desktop oriented distros. This one sticking point has always concerned me and as I run into this problem more and more I thought this feature would be EXTREMELY useful to myself and many others who use/recommend ML. Thank you ALL for your hard work and dedication to making the best Linux distro possible but please can we make some progress in this area for 9.0?? Kind Regards, Jason Greenwood
