Comment 5 for bug 74142

8.04 worked, all ubuntu's after that discontinued support for ppp0 and of course dial-up. This affects me quite seriously since there is no way to connect to the internet at all (no highspeed offered here), and no way to get gnome-ppp since it doesn't come with ubuntu either.

PLEASE GET DIAL-UP SUPPORT BACK IN NETWORK-MANAGER!!! Thanks. :D

As a temporary and very pathetic work-around: go to your windows PC, visit packages.ubuntu.com download gnome-ppp and it's dozens of dependencies including wvdial, etc, etc. Save them and return to Ubuntu, then install them all manually until you can get connected - then update the repos; leave comp on overnight. xP