OK all you Ubuntu experts.
I need some help that I cant get across the guys at the Ubuntu forums.
I'm repairing a laptop for an older gentleman, this thing crashed hard, the hard drive took a big one and we can't recover the OS for it, it orignaly came with Vista, he could not get use to it so he sent it back to Dell and had them install XP on it.
Now without the original install disks this thing is dead, I have installed Ubuntu on it and it works well.....EXCEPT.......For the USB dial up modem, that is the only way he can access the internet from his location, I can get the WIFI to work but he does not have WIFI, nor DSL.
So after about 5 days on that Ubuntu form I have got nowhere fast.
I can see the USB modem listed when I do that Ls command in terminal, and have followed to the letter all instructions to do it via the terminal program, but now way can I get to the modem or find the modem or load anything to do this for me, I am lost.
I an not a programmer, and everything I see to help out with this is all programming Greek to me.
Is there some program that will run on Ubuntu that will detect this modem? And install it so I can set it up so he doesn't have to become an expert Ubuntu programmer to run it?
All I want to do is when he runs Fire Fox it will dial up his ISP and connect, or when he is in town use the WIFI card to connect, the guys at the Ubuntu forums can't wrap their heads around the fact that someone is still using a dial up modem, all they tell me how to do this is via a DSL or mobile card.
Anyone have an idea?????