My friend's computer problem

[Steve Turnbull]

On Friday 11 November 2005 22:25, Daniel Lausevic wrote:
> I'll give some background of his story. I told him months ago about a great
> distro called Kubuntu that I was going to test. so I did all the testing to
> my heart's content when I decided to move from FC2 -> Hoary. Then a few
> days later, Breezy came out. So the upgrade really improved its
> disposition. The checklist I had for doing the full upgrade had been met
> and did the migration. He said the only way he'd move from his stable FC2
> was if my install and implementation of software ran flawlessly.
>
> The weekend before last, he came over to my house to install Kubuntu. We
> could've done it at his house, but he has no broadband yet, while I do. The
> first snag was the NIC. It couldn't detect the internet (though FC2 and
> Mepis could. We tested them to see if it was the hardware). We tried a
> multitude of things to no luck. I couldn't get the NIC or the spare to work
> in Kubuntu yet they worked in two other distros just fine.
>
> So, we left it at that and decided to just update the packages slowly via
> modem.
>
> Now, I got all the proper settings done in KPPP. But the software hangs at
> "initializing" and won't even try to dial out. I didn't see inetd daemon
> running on the list, or was it listed period. And PPP and PPP-dns weren't
> running.
>
> His modem is hardware based and purchased specifically to run in Linux
> since he's really trying hard to go with OSS permanently. I'd really like
> to see his box online but I don't want him running a RPM based distro or
> one with a shabby interface. Kubuntu is the chosen distro here.
>
> Any hints? So far we know the following:
>
>
>    - Both NICS work (fedora and mepis)
>     - Modem works in both M$ and Fedora
>    - Stops at the 'initializing modem' part.
>    - Hardware modem
>    - Hardware is in the PCI listing (brand name included)
>    - Installed Kubuntu a number of times
>
> So, any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Are you trying to install 5.04 (Hoary) or 5.10 (Breezy) ?

I had problems with Breezy - one being wireless networking.

See this thread with my 5.10 issues;

http://kubuntuforums.net/index.php?topic=1540.0

Not a solution, just some thoughts really

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Steve Turnbull

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