<div>Dear Ian,</div> <div> </div> <div>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.</div> <div> </div> <div>Leon<br><br> </div> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 26/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ian</b> <<a href="mailto:igb123@talktalk.net">igb123@talktalk.net</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 5px 10px 10px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bgcolor="#ffffff" background="http://"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" width="100%"> <div>Ron</div> <div> </div> <div>I looked in the Synaptic dialog under Networking but no eagle-usb-data there or under any other selection either.</div> <div> </div> <div>Trouble for me is, I can't ask it to download anything cause I don't have a connection on the Ubuntu side.</div> <div> </div> <div> 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.</div> <div> </div> <div>So far I still have not connection so I am not doing something right, but what?</div><span class="q"> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>  </div> <div> </div> <div><i>-------Original Message-------</i></div> <div> </div> <div> <div dir="ltr" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><i><b>From:</b></i> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" target="_blank" href="mailto:owdronrhodes@tiscali.co.uk">Ron Rhodes</a></div> <div dir="ltr" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><i><b>Date:</b></i> 25/10/2006 18:44:17</div> <div dir="ltr" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><i><b>To:</b></i> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" target="_blank" href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">British Ubuntu Talk</a></div> <div dir="ltr" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><i><b>Subject:</b></i> Re: [ubuntu-uk] New boy.</div></div> <div> </div></span> <div><span class="e" id="q_10e836f5b7c7f5ed_2"> <div>On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 15:31 +0100, Ian wrote:</div> <div>> Well as I'm in the UK and eager to get a good deal on broadband I</div> <div>> signed with TalkTalk and they only supply a USB Sagem 8oo modem so its</div> <div>> hooked to the BT plug.throiugh the usual fliter. I have lernt that</div> <div>> Linux does not like USB to much, is that right?</div> <div>></div> <div>> I tried a router but it cut the speed of my connection to XP on the</div> <div>> master drive from 2.3mbps to 1.0mbps.</div> <div>></div> <div>></div> <div>></div> <div>></div> <div>></div> <div>> -------Original Message-------</div> <div>></div> <div>> Snipped</div> <div>></div> <div>Hi Ian, welcome to Ubuntu.</div> <div> </div> <div>Ubuntu supports the Sagem 800 modem.</div> <div> </div> <div>Select System > Administration > Synaptic</div> <div>Select Networking</div> <div>Go down to eagle-usb-data and eagle-usb-utils and install these.</div> <div>Follow the instructions and you should be OK.</div> <div> </div> <div>Best wishes, Ron</div> <div> </div> <div>--</div> <div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" target="_blank" href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a></div> <div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" target="_blank" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a></div> <div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" target="_blank" href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a></div> <div> </div></span></div></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="100%"></td> <td valign="bottom" align="middle"></td> <td valign="bottom" align="middle"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br>--<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com </a><br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" target="_blank" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a><br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" target="_blank" href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/"> https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>