[Mageia-discuss] Wish List

[Ahmad Samir]

On 3 October 2010 20:32, Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com> 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