<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3492" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi The List,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lisa: Thanks for the reply 6 minutes after I posted!  Unfortunately still got the Dependency not satisfiable: ndiswrapper-common error after the download and transfer.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Matt: Thanks for your suggestion as well. All I saw for our efforts was "E: Couldn't find package." Not unreasonable - No modem - No web - No package! Unless there is a means of pointing to where it is - say a specific folder?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So the problem remains; In fact two: I have to download any required files via XP, so the list has to be complete and executably correct prior to transfer to Ubuntu via memory stick, (That part seems to work, by the way.) and I still require a means of getting the Optus modem to switch on with Ubuntu 8.10.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks again for the help offered, it is very much appreciated.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mike H</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>