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Ubuntu Linux : Internet connection : How?
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 |
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