tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29285322165850647972012-02-16T07:43:19.413-08:00Description of my trials and tribulations of setting up an old Toshiba Laptop with Ubuntu LTS 8.04sparkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16326194387258047575noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2928532216585064797.post-89108162094177256882008-09-23T10:41:00.000-07:002008-09-23T10:50:24.693-07:00Found an interesting problem in that no USB Devices would be recognised other than the modem. A learned friend of mine fixed this by editing the .rules file I'd made for the modem:<br /><br />#RUN+="/sbin/rmmod usb_storage"<br />RUN+="/usr/sbin/usb_modeswitch -d 1 -v 0x19d2 -p 0x2000 -V 0x19d2 -P 0x0001"<br /><br />The hashed line (original) actually killed all USB apart from the modem and the replacement line, just stops the storage on that modem, and allows everything else to connect properly!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2928532216585064797-8910816209417725688?l=adventuresinlinux-sparky.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>sparkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16326194387258047575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2928532216585064797.post-34481821640411440692008-09-20T04:16:00.000-07:002008-09-23T10:52:23.323-07:00Next on the list is getting my hotmail working correctly - again it's google to the rescue and the following website being very helpful:<br /><br />http://www.ubuntugeek.com/send-and-receive-your-hotmail-messages-through-evolution.html<br /><br />so many thanks to the guys over at ububtugeek.com<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2928532216585064797-3448182164041144069?l=adventuresinlinux-sparky.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>sparkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16326194387258047575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2928532216585064797.post-41120885230466855792008-09-14T13:28:00.000-07:002008-09-23T10:52:36.804-07:00Now on to the tricky stuff - setting up the 3G USB card. I have a ZTE MF622 modem from three in the UK.<br /><br />This does not work natively in ubuntu, unlike other modems, but after much trial and error, I managed to get it working - this post is via said modem!<br /><br />I tried lots of different ways, using the following method:<br /><br />http://polishlinux.org/linux/ubuntu/three-uk-3g-modem-in-ubuntu-linux/<br /><br />which is for a different modem, which didn't work, but did give me a few pointers.<br /><br />I next tried a product developed for the elonex webbook:<br /><br />https://launchpad.net/wader<br /><br />This did detect the modem correctly but won't connect for some reason - I'd really like to get this working as it is a nice graphical front end.<br /><br />The method that did finally work for me is on:<br /><br />http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-665332.html<br /><br />So many thanks to jimmy1 - thanks to him, I can now take my nice small notebook away with me instead of my monster 17" Fujitsu Siemens Amilo beast, and see how I get on with linux as opposed to XP!<br /><br />UPDATE: Still working ok, but i did have to disable my wireless from the Network configuration, otherwise it tried to do use the IP address of my wireless connection as opposed to my 3G Modem<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2928532216585064797-4112088523046685579?l=adventuresinlinux-sparky.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>sparkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16326194387258047575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2928532216585064797.post-76482039498291726042008-09-14T13:26:00.001-07:002008-09-14T13:28:06.576-07:00I decided to install Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS Desktop, and lo and behold it picked up the wifi, sound card etc. Good Start - the one thing that was naff - the graphics - very fuzzy. To solve this I had to use the proprietary drivers from Nvidia, but these installed via ubuntu so no worries there.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2928532216585064797-7648203949829172604?l=adventuresinlinux-sparky.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>sparkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16326194387258047575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2928532216585064797.post-61398994807709993612008-09-14T13:24:00.000-07:002008-09-23T10:52:47.965-07:00I'm using a Toshiba Satellite M30 - Pentium 4 Mobile 1.6, Geforce FX5200, 1GB RAM, 60gb hard drive<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2928532216585064797-6139899480770999361?l=adventuresinlinux-sparky.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>sparkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16326194387258047575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2928532216585064797.post-33130974748887285772008-09-14T13:22:00.000-07:002008-09-14T13:24:42.285-07:00Well, this is a blog more to remind me what and when i've changed things as I'm a linux newbie, and if I don't write it down somewhere then I'll forget it when I reinstall or it breaks! Some of this stuff may be useful to other people as well - you never know!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2928532216585064797-3313097474888728577?l=adventuresinlinux-sparky.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>sparkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16326194387258047575noreply@blogger.com0