On Tuesday 05 Oct 2010 06:20:54 Marc Paré wrote: > > No, i must confess that I didn't use a modem since a long time ( the > > only one I used is the one of my mobile phone, and I used wvdial (not > > user friendly) and network-manager ( not sure it can work with non 3g > > modem )), so I cannot really tell where to look for filling a bug > > report. > > > > But I think you are right and that's important to make sure that it work > > fine. > > I think that we often forget that some users struggle with dial-up > connections. André pointed this out to us a couple of posts ago. Mageia > should maybe be a little more sensitive to this and have the tools for > dial-up connection already installed rather than having the user go back > and download either from the install disk or internet.
Yes please do that, one reason I went to openSUSE is the fact that dialup was so simple to set up. It installed wvdial and qinternet if it detected a modem during install, it even prelists all the dialup providers phone numbers so you just click through and it's done. Brilliant. > > My mother and father/mother-in-laws are on Madriva 2009.1 Dial-ups with > external modems. They are quite happy with the setups, but I did have to > install the dial-up software at the time. Apparently Kppp will be part > of the install package with KDE installs. > > I prefer external modems, less driver problems. indeed > > Dial-up in Canada is $9/month Cdn. in most cities. > > Marc Cheers GL -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html OpenOffice.org Migration and training Consultant. INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Open Technologies) www.theingots.org
