[Mageia-discuss] Wish List

[Marc Paré]

>
> 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.

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.

Dial-up in Canada is $9/month Cdn. in most cities.

Marc