[ubuntu-uk] New boy.

Leon Barker leon.barker at gmail.com
Fri Oct 27 11:37:13 BST 2006


Dear Ian,

Welcome to ubuntu forum list. I know this isn't very helpful but you might
want to consider getting a real ethernet modem/router, these are virtually
trouble free to set up on any OS.

Leon


On 26/10/06, Ian <igb123 at talktalk.net> wrote:
>
>    Ron
>
> I looked in the Synaptic dialog under Networking but no eagle-usb-data
> there or under any other selection either.
>
> Trouble for me is, I can't ask it to download anything cause I don't have
> a connection on the Ubuntu side.
>
>  That also makes it difficult or at least very slow and frought witrh
> error when everyone here kindly suggests code that will do the trick, I have
> to print it out in XP and then log into Ubuntu to key it in.
>
> So far I still have not connection so I am not doing something right, but
> what?
>
>
>
>
> *-------Original Message-------*
>
>  *From:* Ron Rhodes <owdronrhodes at tiscali.co.uk>
> *Date:* 25/10/2006 18:44:17
> *To:* British Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [ubuntu-uk] New boy.
>
>  On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 15:31 +0100, Ian wrote:
> > Well as I'm in the UK and eager to get a good deal on broadband I
> > signed with TalkTalk and they only supply a USB Sagem 8oo modem so its
> > hooked to the BT plug.throiugh the usual fliter. I have lernt that
> > Linux does not like USB to much, is that right?
> >
> > I tried a router but it cut the speed of my connection to XP on the
> > master drive from 2.3mbps to 1.0mbps.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -------Original Message-------
> >
> > Snipped
> >
> Hi Ian, welcome to Ubuntu.
>
> Ubuntu supports the Sagem 800 modem.
>
> Select System > Administration > Synaptic
> Select Networking
> Go down to eagle-usb-data and eagle-usb-utils and install these.
> Follow the instructions and you should be OK.
>
> Best wishes, Ron
>
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