On 3 October 2010 20:32, Marc Paré <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 2010-10-03 13:02, André Machado a écrit : >> >>> With laptops it's unfortunately not the users' choice, unless the user >>> adds >>> an external modem in addition to the in-built winmodem (which wouldn't be >>> ideal), so I agree, support for winmodem would be still very useful. >> >> Not only laptops. Many lay users buy magazine PCs that come with this >> winmodens and don't know differences behind them and a hardmodem. >> >> Also, I've seen bizarre things, like distros where the dialer is not >> installed >> and you need to download it from Internet. But how the user will download >> the >> dialer if the Internet does not work? No! Dial-up dialer should come >> installed >> as default. >> >> Some softmodens are supported, such like these models: >> >> http://wiki.debian.org/slmodem [Sorry, Mandriva link is too long] >> >> But the point is that the most, like PCTel, Lucent and Motorolla, has >> licenses >> that restrict distribution - so include these drivers on Mageia can be >> illegal >> - and some drivers requires compile a kernel module to work - what not >> aways >> works. To lay user, can be very difficult compile and load a kernel >> module. So, >> we must pay close attention to this bit detail. Too many users what >> doesn't use >> Linux can begin to use it if the distro has this support. Too many of them >> still >> with a dual boot Win-Linux because of this. >> > > Another good point. I don't believe that in the case of KDE, the kppp is > installed by default. However, it is on the Mandriva installation disk. But > I can see how this could be a little confusing for the new user.
kppp is suggested by kdenetwork4, so it'll be installed in a default install. -- Ahmad Samir
