<div>On 06/03/2007, Irena and Richard Jenkins <<a href="mailto:richard.jenkins@internode.on.net">richard.jenkins@internode.on.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I love Xubuntu 6.06 ... on my old celeron laptop (366MHz cpu and only 96 Meg of RAM) ... and most of the time my three network interfaces can be made to work reliably.  However, after setting up my modem for dialup ... and activating the connection ... I face a waiting period of maybe 90 sec ... before I have a connection and my browser can begin to load a homepage. There is nothing to tell me that the connection has been successful ... until I get to use it. No worries!  I'll download something called 'modemlights'.  This was a small download ... done over the ADSL connection at home.  Now ... how do I make it happen?? I recognise its a Gnome applet ... but I don't seem able to make it work under XFce!!  Any ideas??</blockquote><div> Well, GNOME applets, as the name says, are written for GNOME, not for Xfce. However, it is possible to run GNOME applets in your Xfce panel using the panel plugin xfapplet. Unfortunately, that plugin only became available in version 6.10 of Xubuntu [1]. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I don't want to drop my excellent network manager ... because it is so helpful deciding between my connection methods - dialup, adsl and wireless. Please can I have some help? Richard PS ... I found that my machine was not reliable under Edgy... IS Feisty proving better for older hardware?? </blockquote><div> That really depends on your hardware. In any case, I encourage you to give 7.10 a try (Gutsy), many report that it has a speed increase when compared to 7.04 (Feisty). I'm not sure whether you'll be able to run the LiveCD though, to test whether it works with your hardware. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">R -- -- Irena and Richard Jenkins Canberra,  AUSTRALIA +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ </blockquote></div> [1] <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=xfapplet&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all">http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=xfapplet&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all </a> Good luck, -- Vincent