[ubuntu-in] Fwd: Connected to the internet (MTNL Triband) using USB in Kubuntu 6.06

[Roshan]

--- Roshan <d_rosh2001 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:

> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:33:59 +0100 (BST)
> From: Roshan <d_rosh2001 at yahoo.co.in>
> Subject: Connected to the internet (MTNL Triband)
> using USB in Kubuntu 6.06
> To: linuxers at mm.glug-bom.org.
> 
> Hello List,
> 
> I was trying to connect to the internet using
> different Live CDs including Freespire, Ubuntu 6.10,
> Xubuntu 6.10. through the USB port that was conne
> cted
> to the ADSL (Dlink 502-T) router. Somehow, all the
> above didn't manage to configure the device
> automatically on boot up, though Ubuntu 6.10 listed
> the device on the device manger.
> 
> I finally tried Dapper Drake (Kubuntu 6.06) and it
> automatically configured the device (allocating IP
> address through DHCP) and Konqueror (my smart
> browser
> - as I call it) proved that the device is working
> and
> I'm connected to the internet. 
> 
> I wonder, if Ubuntu has the same base as Kubuntu,
> why
> didn't ubuntu do it? AFAIK, the desktop environment
> is
> the different, but the base is same, isn't it?
> 
> (This was on Dell E1405 running the Kubuntu 6.06
> Live
> CD). 
> 
> If one can list steps, that I probably had to follow
> for Ubuntu 6.10, please let me know.


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