There are many brilliant people on this newsgroup who may be able to
help me.

My Toshiba A100 with XP was re-booting about every 20 minutes with "
Unknown error ( or something like that ), Windows will tell you when a
solution has been found " I also believe in flying pigs!

To start I loaded the Ubuntu CD and did the memory test - no problems.

Left it running overnight and it had not re-booted so I doubt if it
has motherboard or memory problems. I did buy a new HDD (320G to
replace the original 80G), installed it and re-tested memory etc. -
no problems, it has been running for another 24 hours without
re-booting.

Installed Ubuntu on the 320Gig with no probs, ran through a few
programmes to try to get used to it and like it.

Now we come to the hard part for me - how to connect to the internet
via a wireless router/modem I am on the dumber side as far as
this goes.

Equipment
Toshiba A100 with 2MB of memory
Linksys router/modem about 20 metres away in #1 son's house, I live in
an attached grand-dad flat. This is being typed on an Asus laptop
(W7) with 3 bars signal strength, the Toshiba never got more than 2.

The only thing good about windows was that is was relatively easy to
connect to the modem. I am baffled trying to connect Ubuntu. I
just don't understand how to do it.

Help is no good because I cannot get online to find out what to do.

I guess that I should use Network settings to set up, which is what
I am trying.

Modem settings Messages -

Location - create location what is this?
Connections - Interface ppp0 is not configured
General domain name ????
DNS servers what would address be ? same for search domains
Hosts has 127.0.0.1 as localhost alan-laptop and 127.0.1.1 as
alan-laptop plus a few other hieroglyphics which mean nothing to me.
Properties has an IP address of ff00::0.

I have just had a brilliant thought, maybe the Linksys installation CD
will help, but it probably does not cover Linux. No luck - windows
only.

If anyone can help me I will be extremely grateful. I could
probably work out how to do it with about 3 weeks of effort.

Thanks,

Alan