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

Try posting output of lspci command.

lspci

i

On 2012-02-09, wrote:
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

Steve Ackman wrote:

On my systems, you go to the System menu on the main taskbar and then
select Preferences and then Network Connections, and there should be
a tab for wireless connections. You will have to enter the right stuff
for your specific wireless system from there.

Jon

On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:01:43 -0700, Steve Ackman wrote:

On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:05:15 +0800, wrote:

Installed Ubuntu...

As you can see by now, there's not just one way to
do network stuff. (I'm not even going to go down the ifconfig road at
this point.)
It would probably help (or might not) if you said
which version of Ubuntu you've installed.

And whether Ubuntu appears to see the wireless hardware.

From the original post it's not clear whether the problem is one of
setting up the network (you have to point the 'puter to the right one(s))
or getting the computer to see the wireless hardware (which sometimes
requires that you turn on and/or download drivers for the specific
hardware).

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