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<div><span class="gmail_quote">2005/12/16, honey <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:f2003375@gmail.com" target="_blank">f2003375@gmail.com</a>>:</span> <span class="q">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">That's cool.It will be better if we can just note down the most commonly used vendor names of modems and check the ones that doesn't have driver support in Linux ( This can save hours for the user)
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<p>Well, thats also a good idea! A kind of a hardware compatiblity list. But then, dont we already have some sites for this? Are you suggesting one specifically for hardware typically being sold in India? Do these not get covered by sites like
<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.linuxcompatible.org/compatcat3-1-1.html" target="_blank">http://www.linuxcompatible.org/compatcat3-1-1.html</a> ?</p>
<p>My suggestion is with the target audience of a total newbie user to Linux. Such a user would prefer to use a GUI tool for setting up a dialup connection to some ISP in India. If you look at the KPPP Wizard for this, you will find many ISP's from even small countries like Czech republic and Slovenia, but nothing for India!
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<p>If we get kpprc 's from a working connection for various ISP/Locations, and get that into KDE cvs, it would become part of the standard KDE release. The user selects India from the Wizard, sees Satyam, MTNL etc and merely has to fill in the username and password.
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<p>A new user (esp a non-techie one) need not waste time figuring out something others have already done. </p></div></div>