What is the best Distro for dialup?

[JAYCEE1]

I'm having trouble getting the internal modem to work with Ubuntu. Which is the best distro for dialup users?

Thanks!

[mips]

That depends pretty much on the modem/chipset in use. Some software modems will not work in Linux.

Also for a dialup user I would ensure that I can get all the software from the repositories) on cd/dvd as installing stuff over dialup can be a real pain.

[darrelljon]

Probably Puppy Linux. Though I used to use MEPISLite which was good.

[pelle.k]

I've used dial-up on one computer at work since fiesty fawn, and it works great. Internal soft-modems will always cause you problems, even in windows so go buy a cheap 56k external, and live happily ever after man.
As for updates, that's going to be a problem with almost any distro i'm afraid. yum (in fedora) uses delta-rpms (which is only the parts that were changed after updating a package), but the downside is that fedora is almost a rolling-release distro (i say almost, because it's isn't really true, but you knwo what i mean).
Maybe mandriva, with only distribution updates activated?

[Caraibes]

Both Mepis & Puppy had winmodem drivers out of the box the last time I tried (that was some time ago... I am on ADSL since 2005...) !

[jrusso2]

Any distro that has a lot of winmodem drivers, Mephis was mentioned as was puppy linux. Freespire 1.0 and Linspire 5 used to have them, but now the newer versions are based on Ubuntu and it seems they lost that dial up feature.

[madjr]

the problem is not the distro

the problem is your cheap modem.

get a real modem:
http://www.amazon.com/Actiontec-USB-Serial-External-Modem/dp/B000EAQ08C/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1198353430&sr=8-1