[Ubuntu-PH] Ubuntu Inquiry

[Dax Solomon Umaming]

On Thursday, 14 January, 2010 10:17 AM, joaquin reyes wrote:
>     Thanks for the immediate reply.

Oh no, your emails ended up in my spam folder. I blame my filters and
rules for this very late reply.

>     We will try
>     out your suggestions. By the way we connect directly through the
>     adsl modem.

Right, I have no experience with Bayantel, but I've had experience
connecting via PPPoE.

>     My daughter has notice that the net forums seem to
>     have a good number of posts with problems of connecting to the net
>     on ver 9.10. Iba ibang styles of working out the problem have been
>     proposed but it seems that no definite resolution has been arrived
>     at. Thats why she's considering using ver 9.04 as our option for the
>     dual boot.

I've had problems with 9.10 as well, but not in the networking department.

>     Can we use the steps you outlined above by just running the 9.1 live
>     cd instead of reinstalling? We intend to run the cd using the try
>     out without changing your system option. If that possible and we are
>     able to connect to the net, thats when we intend to reinstall ubuntu.

That's exactly what LiveCDs are intended for. You should be able to test
your networking capability even with just a LiveCD.

>     This isnt my inquiry but i assume you copied me in since pareho
>     problema namin nung nagpost.

Actually, I forwarded your query to the list[1], and that's one of the
replies[2][3][4] I got. Try using pppoeconf as advised by JR Galia[2][3].


>     On our first try at installation, we were able to create the
>     bayantel connection through the network manager dsl tab. Na input
>     namin and name at password at muikhang nacreate yung bayatel
>     account. It just that when we press the account walang nangyayari.

I am unsure of this. Have you tried tweaking your Authentication
Methods? Try selecting either PAP or CHAP - this worked with AT&T back
when I was in the US (although I forgot what method I used, but I'm sure
it's one of them).

>     We tried to edit the created account but we could not. Insuficient
>     permissions to edit ang  message na lumabas.
>     Isang login user lang ang nacreate namin nung una and it seems hindi
>     sya administrator account (in windows terms). May way bang maging
>     administrator with out going through the terminal whenever
>     administrator status is needed?

The term is correct on Ubuntu since first/main users are always part of
the admin group with sudo privileges. For other distros, they prefer the
term superuser or root.

Getting back to the topic, if it did ask for a username and/or password,
just leave it blank. But this would only work on a LiveCD session[5].

I'll forward your other email to the list as well.

[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ph/2010-January/001935.html
[2] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ph/2010-January/001936.html
[3] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ph/2010-January/001938.html
[4] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ph/2010-January/001939.html
[5] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD
-- 
Dax Solomon Umaming
http://blog.knightlust.com/