Live CD Can't connect to the Internet

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S Barringer wrote:

> S Barringer a écrit :
>
> You should be able to. Did you invoke pon ? did you press the button 
> of your modem ? (yes some forget to push the button) can you see the 
> light on it ? is it a serial modem ? which brand/model ?
> Do you belong to the dialout group ?
> Joyce Markoll.
> Joyce, No, I didn't invoke pon.  How do I do that?  The modem light is 
> on.   It's a serial modem, but the pppconfig didn't detect it and went 
> to manual.   At the manual setting, it had ttyS1 already listed, and I 
> went with that.  Maybe it's on ttyS0?   It's a US Robotics and works 
> just great on any other Linux OS I've used with it.     Do I belong to 
> the dialout group?   What's that?  I said I'm new to Ubuntu.  (I'm 
> used to KDE, not Gnome.)  sbarringer at netpenny.net
>
>
Sorry , forgot to include
to check if you belong to dialout group, try in terminal 

sudo adduser yourusername dialout and press enter

Hope this helps,
Take Care
Winton