no internet connection on UBUNTU

Hi,

I just got a cd for UBUNTU. before installing it on my compaq Notebook I decided to give it a try on my old desktop.

Now the install has been done flawlessly.

My problem is with the internet connection. I cant connect to my ADSL modem through the USB which was running absolutely fine on Windows.

Please help.

 

does you adsl modem has ethernet just idea maybe try useing from what hear setup usb asdl model can be pain


maybe if tell what can modem i cound point you toward some docs

 

the ADSL modem is from Huawei WA1003A.

I have the Ethernet cable but my desktop doesnt have the input. :SAD

Dont know if that may help but the USB light doesnt blink on the modem when I start the OS but if I re-insert the USB cable it blinks.

And the ping doesnt reach the modem either.

PS: When I ran live cd on my compaq Laptop, the internet through Ethernet run automatically like a breeze. havent run it on wireless though.

 

With about 5 min. Googling, I found this page, which says that it uses the eagle-usb chipset, then I found this Ubuntu Wiki page for how to set it up.

Good luck and let us know if this helps.

 

Thanks very much for the effort.
I will see what I can do. I am a bit reserved being a first time user. But I know I can do it with the help of so many linux guru's around.

 

Update: I downloaded the file in this link

I saved it in windows and then transferred to my desktop. there is a slight problem here.

One the server the filename ends with .tar.gz but when I transfer it to my desktop the filename changed to .tar.tar It asks me to write .tar.gz in the terminal so I renamed the file to .tar.gz

so after the filename change I am able to extract the files.

$ tar -xvzf ueagle-data-1.1.tar.gz

when I enter the next command in the terminal

$ sudo mkdir /lib/firmware/ueagle-atm

I get a dialogue which says "cannot create directory '/lib/firmware/ueagle-atm': file already exists

What should I do? shall I continue with the process or am I doing something wrong?

 

Okay, so, for some reason, there's already that directory in your system, see if there's anything in that folder first, if there is, rename it to something else, but if not, then just continue with the next step. So:

Code:

$ ls -a /lib/firmware/ueagle-atm/

To see the contents of the folder, if there's anything besides "." and ".." (which are just "current directory", and "parent directory"), then:

Code:

$ sudo mv /lib/firmware/ueagle-atm /lib/firmware/ueagle-atm.backup

Then just keep following directions, good luck.

 

hey T12ek,

your post was extremely helpful. I solved that problem but now I have am stuck at a further point.

According to the link above, I did reconnect the modem and the light started working.

but when i used the following command

I got the following error

this was after the file opened. I edited the file for previous errors and then saved and closed the file.

Then I used the command

instead of the following line

I got this

What am I supposed to do?



Thanks very much once again.

 

Okay, first thing I want to note is this, I haven't gone through this myself, I'm just help you troubleshoot this through the documentation you're following and what you're telling me.

I'm also not even running Ubuntu anymore, so even if I tried to follow exactly what you're doing, it would still be a little different for me.

Another thing to keep in mind is that this documentation is generally made by end users like you and me, so if it doesn't exactly match what you're doing, don't be afraid to try to adapt a bit. Anyway, let's try to get this figured out.

 

This interwebz problem has happened to me several times while using the Live CD. I had to restart my computer, sometimes once, sometimes more to get interwebz going again.

 

t12ek,

I cant thank you enough. . I have finally done it. I a posting this from my desktop running UBUNTU.

Well, its not a 100% success. I opened my modem box and found an ethernet wire. So I doublecheked my cabinet ports. And yes there was the ethernet port. So I connected it to my ethernet port.

Had to play around but now it works.

 

Sorry to hear that you couldn't get the USB modem to work, however, going through ethernet is better anyway, so it's all for the better.

Have fun with your machine, and don't hesitate to ask when other problems come up.

 

I am actually happy because Ethernet sure is working better than USB.

Which is the best music player for UBUNTU with all the codecs ?(probably including Divx and Quicktime.)

 

DivX and Quicktime aren't music codecs, they're video codecs. What you have to add for codecs is probably something from medibuntu, which is hosted out of the US as many of the technologies are illegal to distribute in the United States.

 

Okay, for a VIDEO player, I like mplayer, it pretty much has all the codecs you need built into it, there are very few files I've run into that it can't play. I launch it from a terminal though, so all its controls are via keyboard (see its man page for the commands). gmplayer is the same thing, but it has a gui if you don't want to be stuck with keyboard for everything.

For a music player, a lot of people like Amarok (its a KDE app though, so it'll hit your ram harder). Personally, I use Quod Libet, I like it because it comes with the best Linux tagging program I've run into (Ex Falso), and for the paned browser mode, it lets me specify which tags to sort my music collection with. In practice, out of any Linux music player, it's the closest to the way I used to use Foobar2000 on Windows (which is one of the only things I miss about Windows). I believe Quod Libet uses gstreamer as the backend, so, you can just add any gstreamer package to enable the respective codec support. But of course, as Linux is all about choice, the best for me is not necessarily the best for you. Try different players out and see how you like them.