RE: What modems work with Ubuntu?
- From: Derek Broughton <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:32:21 -0400
Mike Drabik wrote:
The reality one techie has experienced 'out there' among the non-profit...
organizations (NGO's) with shoe-string budgets and who cannot afford a
broadband connection
E. THEN, after the upgrade is complete, I.T. Specialist finds the Winmodem
won't work in Ubuntu. He works at every possible solution he can find -
desperately even working at home using his broadband connection looking
for a possible windmodem driver compatible with Linux. Result: nothing,
absolutely nothing works.
F. Advises Director of same. Result: Director orders all parts be returned
to the store; the Ubuntu CD is tossed in the trash; the PC is relegated
to the attic of the building currently occupied by the NGO AND the I.T.
specialist is now looking for a job.
I ain't got a solution to this problem, but this is the reality out there
for both NGO's and ordinary computer users and many of the I.T. folks out
there who support them.
This, though, isn't the fault of Ubuntu. Ubuntu needs to support _some_
modems, not _every_ modem. This was an error on the part of the IT
specialist who failed to spec a working modem in the upgrade. Frankly, I
have trouble believing you couldn't have got a usable modem with the $40
left in the budget, rather than trying to make the original one fit.
I've seen the same on the part of corporations with far more resources. A
solutions provider specced a Debian system running MySQL for a database
application. Unfortunately they never considered the fact that, at the
time, MySQL couldn't handle more than a 4TB database, and the data grew to
4TB within months. Rip out Debian, install Solaris (iirc) and Oracle.
Take a big loss on the project. That company not only won't touch Linux
any more, but they badmouth it at every opportunity - because of their own
error.
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