fucking linux and my fucking laptops modem

[jæd]

this'll do it I assume?
assume this is powered by the USB port too?

Well... If you want to assume things you might run into one or two problems. Have you researched linux driversfor it on the Internet...? With Linux its best to do a search in Google and on the linux compatability list before blindly assuming something.

Personally I'd go with a modem that connects to a serial port as these have been supported by Linux since Roman times. (Does the laptop have a serial port...?)

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Well... If you want to assume things you might run into one or two problems. Have you researched linux driversfor it on the Internet...? With Linux its best to do a search in Google and on the linux compatability list before blindly assuming something.

Personally I'd go with a modem that connects to a serial port as these have been supported by Linux since Roman times. (Does the laptop have a serial port...?)

good point - goes off to research drivers

can't be arsed with yet another plug socet - so if I can't do it with a usb powered modem I aint doing it, as I said in the original post, I don't really wanna use an external modem at all tbh

serial port=yus

 

[Throbbing Angel]

RIGHT!

fuck the laptop - THIS is my first post from my desktop using Ubuntu linux and my girlfriends old external Pace modem - no idea what speed I'm, connected at or whether Firefox is just shite, but I'm online under Ubuntu! Hurrah!

think I will leave the laptop for now and see what it's like online with the desktop for a while - if I can do it with this, I should be able to do it on my lappy huh, eventually anyway


pip pip

 

[peppery]

I've had the same problems using a modem with a Linux box. my machine initially had a Winmodem that didn't work with Ubuntu, so I installed an Intel 536EP but I couldn't get the drivers to work with it. I just gave up. The funny thing is I've been using Linux for about 6 years and didn't have problems back then.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

fucking weird innit

trying to get to grips with Evolution mail now

ffs - anyone show me where this ADD button is so I can 'add' more than one email account to the fecker>?

 

[boskysquelch]

fucking weird innit

trying to get to grips with Evolution mail now

ffs - anyone show me where this ADD button is so I can 'add' more than one email account to the fecker>?

LOL<<<from another nooooob to ubuntu>>>Edit>Prefrences>there it is!!!

*niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiische innit?

 

[Throbbing Angel]

cheers squelch, many emails accts added now

 

[boskysquelch]

cheers squelch, many emails accts added now

now_then....'ow the fek do you install Clamav into ubuntu/breezey badger styleeee? ...2nd day of doinge....least I get to twat around in terminal...but most of the read mes/Googleness/guru instructions seem to give all/many ways to do it but nutting works to blat it in....grrrrrr...

 

[Iam]

What type of package is it, squelch?

 

[boskysquelch]

What type of package is it, squelch?

*runs in from rain whilst trying to repair 'lectrics on car...package? eh?

clamav-0.87.1 linux trying to get it working in ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger..two of us taking turn for two days to try to get it in....lmao!

 

[jæd]

*runs in from rain whilst trying to repair 'lectrics on car...package? eh?

clamav-0.87.1 linux trying to get it working in ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger..two of us taking turn for two days to try to get it in....lmao!

Why...? Clamav is a virus checker. Not needed on linux.

 

[jæd]

If you're really heart set on installing anti-virus on ubuntu the quickest way to install is:

sudo apt-get install clamav

 

[Throbbing Angel]

can someone recommend a 'whatthe fuck am I doing' type guide to linux/terminal etc etc

I have no idea what I am doing at all and searching for help is fucking useless ime as you get one persons experience on a bulletin board from my findings

I need to learn what to do - I've just downloaded a .deb package and extracted it to the desktop and now I just have another 3 files on the desktop, cunts! I wanted it to install - and it isn't very intuitive [it's the Opera browser fer linux btw - ffox is shyte!]

 

[lobster]

http://www.linuxcommand.org/
http://www.linuxquestions.org/
http://www.tldp.org/
http://www.debianplanet.org/

there are a few good links for you to look at, the last link is for debian news which does include a forum, ive not been as i am a slackware user, but i noticed you are a debian user, so i searched google and found those links usefull as a start.

 

[Almor]

Right
Toshiba 'Equium' A60 [satellite] lappy with the usual software modem in it

Despite seeming to have given up on the laptop modem here's a nice site for help with Linux on Toshiba computers, you'd want installation infos link; there are about 10 Equium A60's on there so I've not looked for yours. The info is quite often aimed at SuSe Linux but can often be adapted to others fairly easily.

As far as getting started?
The Linux Documentation Project - http://www.tldp.org/index.html
Linux Newbie Guide - http://sunsite.dk/linux-newbie/index.html
rute users tutorial and exposition - http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz
Debian GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide - http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/
Debian Linux Tutorial - Guide On How To Install Linux Software for Servers and Network Installation and Set Up for Beginners with Instructions On How To Configure A Home Server - http://www.aboutdebian.com/

I don't think I've even got around to reading the last 2 of those at all myself yet, but they look nice.

 

[jayeola]

can someone recommend a 'whatthe fuck am I doing' type guide to linux/terminal etc etc

I have no idea what I am doing at all and searching for help is fucking useless ime as you get one persons experience on a bulletin board from my findings

I need to learn what to do - I've just downloaded a .deb package and extracted it to the desktop and now I just have another 3 files on the desktop, cunts! I wanted it to install - and it isn't very intuitive [it's the Opera browser fer linux btw - ffox is shyte!]

Welcome the real world of *nix. A world where you are in control of your machine. There are thousand of commands at your disposal right now. There are some docs (loads in fact) on your machine right now...

1- you don't actually need an anti-virus app. believe it or not. took me a while to be convinced.
2:- aliases. very handy. here's one that i made earlier:- http://wiki.blagblagblag.org/Aliases look at the bottom of the page to see how i use it as a "help me tool"

 

[boskysquelch]

If you're really heart set on installing anti-virus on ubuntu the quickest way to install is:

sudo apt-get install clamav

Thankee jaed...I did actually get that far,,,but I was prolly trollied with a space too many or a hyphen too less...>>the reason the av is being put on is coz it isn't my set up...the lappy with Ubuntu it networked into a Windows main Net accesss...it's work sensitive and stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuff...owner is concerned about my surfing habits and/or his own versus occassional seeding of stuff received from clients less inclined to be as discerning with their housekeeping.......anyways installing clamav and the doings that is needed to do that is all a learning curve thang to innit?



*swaps over to opther lappy...

 

[Velouria]

Maybe someone could give you an old 56k PCMCIA modem (one that shows up as a COM port when initialised, not a software driven one ...) that you could bung in and go?

Mate has a whole stack of them but none of the little dongle thingies that fit on em - they're forever breaking

 

[rich!]

sudo apt-get install clamav

I f#in love *nix's.

Where else do we get to give instructions like that?

 

[boskysquelch]

I f#in love *nix's.

Where else do we get to give instructions like that?

dint work tho coz of a 'lock'...still looking...

 

[rich!]

dint work tho coz of a 'lock'...still looking...

Post the text it gave.

 

[boskysquelch]

Post the text it gave.

will do..jus have to boot it up..though y'all prolly not there now...

 

[ecadre]

Excellent

'tis innit

 

[boskysquelch]

will do..jus have to boot it up..though y'all prolly not there now...

cept i can't post the 20000 characters..only 5000 of 'em by PM or 10000 by a normal post.... .......


*I've already had one HELL of a morning...I'll come back if i haven't found a piece of rope.

 

[e-fluent]

This thread reads like a Microsoft employees blog.

 

[ecadre]

can someone recommend a 'whatthe fuck am I doing' type guide to linux/terminal etc etc

I have no idea what I am doing at all and searching for help is fucking useless ime as you get one persons experience on a bulletin board from my findings

I need to learn what to do - I've just downloaded a .deb package and extracted it to the desktop and now I just have another 3 files on the desktop, cunts! I wanted it to install - and it isn't very intuitive [it's the Opera browser fer linux btw - ffox is shyte!]

A good place to have a look at (I know I'm stating the obvious) is the Ubuntu website:

http://www.ubuntu.com

there are excellent forums at;

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/

also try the "Unofficial Ubuntu 4.10 Starter Guide:

http://www.myjavaserver.com/~mike001/ubuntu/


If you want to install the .deb file for opera, don't extract it or anything, do the following in a terminal:

sudo dpkg -i file_name.deb

Where "file_name.deb" is the name of the file (package) that you want to install.

 

[boskysquelch]

A good place to have a look at (I know I'm stating the obvious) is the Ubuntu website:

personally been everywhere...albeit without joing every forum....looking


sudo apt-get install clamav
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
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W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Couldn't find package clamav

 

[jæd]

W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

Well... Have you tried doing "sudo apt-get update" to correct the problem. When Linux tells you stuff you should listen to the advice given...!

 

[boskysquelch]

all those security things are update....jus can't snatch'em down...beeen tryin over and over and over..."we" know it's simple...but but but but but!


*managed to solve a Newtwork/Firewall issue thang on another puta tho'....could this be summittodo with the modemrouter firewall..Dlink...port forwarding rules?...possibly?

 

[boskysquelch]

Well... Have you tried doing "sudo apt-get update" to correct the problem. When Linux tells you stuff you should listen to the advice given...!

yes yes yes yes yes yes...honestly I'm not really the twat I appear to be. ,,,that's the 20000 character erro list I'm bored of trying to post...funny thing is when it gets to end of that it also says sudo apt-get update....FAF! ,,,,whats the figure percentage things as it's running....

the link up there i did to...pasted over the original etc...that dint work either...


even tried stating the gz wozzit too to install clamav.....

seriously could this be a modemrouter/firewall issue?