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yeah when i saw that in 8.04 i thought it was a joke at first; unfortunately they're still the only linux distro that has adopted that;
(even linux mint which is based on ubuntu doesn't have anything like that - and i her it's supposed to be easier than ubuntu too)
a lot of people have problem with partitioning hard disks and then there are people like me who have exhausted all their partitions.
the wubi installer makes it easier to try it out new distros

@mykali

why do i get the feeling that you want them to include you in the yaps? anyway i
won't be the one to indulge you, so you'll have to wait till someone is jobless enough to pick on you
(one actually gets the feeling that these people tht are always yapping themselves on nairaland have
formed a cartel)

man lots of respect so as a new user you started with a beta version? wow

me am waiting till it becomes officially released; but then Ubuntu's not quite my favorite linux flavor

Em2va:
DAP is cool but its fault is that it abruptly cuts ur download once in every 2 minutes, so U
must always sit tight and watch your download.
Thats bad enough!

Infact DAP is COLD! not cool.

i prefer flashget myself; dap splits the files anto parts and once one part is finished the speed reduces; flashget on
the other hand also splits however when a part is finished, if there is much still left to download, one of the other parts is split again

@lynxmoon is your bandwidth meter the full version? i once used the trial version till it expired

after clicking ok you are brought back to the accounts screen

click on the modems tab and select new
you are shown a dialog which you can fill as shown in the 2nd image on this page
the modem name is free form, you can fill it with whatever string you wish.
the modem device is the ttyUSB device we configured in the first stage
(note: while most of the times i've configured the usb modem it as always been /dev/ttyUSBx there is a possibliity
that for some people it may actually be /dev/tty/tty/USBx or /dev/tty/tts/USBx or some other device but whatever the case it always ends in ttyUSBx)
Make sure you use ttyUSB0 not ttyUSB1 or 2 (i think only 0 actually works)
for the connection speed, 115200 or 230400 will work (perhaps even 9600 but i never use that. if you know how to set it up
in windows without using the software bundled with it (i.e. using the new network connection wizard), you could also use the settings you use there
click ok

finally you are back at your first screen as shown in the last image.
the username is <your phone number>@starcomms.com
and the password is <your phone number>

after that click on connect (you may have to try connecting a couple of times - nigerian factor - but it should eventually work)

if you get an error message like /dev/ttyUSB0 not found it either means that your device is not set up properly or you are using the wrong device

fot\r thoise using kde, first open kppp which is the kde ppp dialer:
in the manu navigate to internet and select kppp;
you ar fisrt greeted with a dialog that  resembles the first image.

Click on configure
another dialog comes up; on the accounts tab select new; a create new account dialog comes up as shown in the second image
select manual setup

you are now shown another window as shown in the third image. On the dial tab, click on add and enter #777 as the phone number
p.s. your connection name sis at your own discretion, you can even leave it blank though it is not advisable

next click on the dns tab,  under configuration select manual,  in the dns ip address box type each of the ip addresses you see in image 4 and click add
After you have done the setup as in figure 4, click ok

i've been using linux for some time now and while i'm not a serious linux bigshot i still like to be able to
replicate the things i can do on windows on linux so shortly after i got my starcomms modem working on windows
i made it a point of duty to do it on linux

Anyay the evdo modem i'm using is the Ovation MC727 Modem.
Before you can use the modem to dial out you first have to have the drivers installed
fortunately if you have a linux kernel later than 2.6.15 (i actually haven't tried out earlier kernels, not that they don't work)
that means any linux distro that came out in the past 2 years and uses 2.6 kernel you should be covered i.e your kernel should have the
drivers required for the modem (however if you are the type that likes recompiling your kernel to exclude modules that you are sure you
don't need you may have to recompile again).
if the modem is plugged in at the time of booting the odds are that the drivers are already loaded. To be sure type

dmesg | grep usbserial

you should get output like this:

usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
usbserial: USB Serial support registered for generic
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
usbserial: USB Serial Driver core

if you don't get any outputthen you'll have to load the module manually. To load the modules you have to run as root;

type: "sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0x1410 product=0x4100" (without the quotes)
after that type "sudo modprobe option" which will load the gsm option module

after that we have to make sure the usb nterface active, type "dmesg | grep ttyUSB"

you should get a similar message to this:
usb 2-1.2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB0
usb 2-1.2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB1
usb 2-1.2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB2
usb 2-1.2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB3

if you don't don't despair; remeber inwindows when you plugged inyour modem, a cdrom drive was detected where
the installation drivers were located; well what happens is that when you plugged in the modem the cdrom drive was detected
nd the kernel didn't bother to continue probing the hardware (at least i think that's what happened). to get the kernel to
detect the interface just eject the cdrom usually /dev/sr0 or /dev/sr1 or if you have more than 1 cdrom drive it may be /dev/sr2

just type eject /dev/srx where x is either 0 or 1 or 2 ,  depending on what drive is assigned to the modem cdrom.
now if you type dmesg | grep ttyUSB you shoud get that message i listed before

now your hardware is set up, time for you to configure how to dial out (you can use kpp or gnome's utilty -unfortunately i can't remember the name).

ramonmulti:
250GB INTERNAL SATA HARD DRIVE, 19,000 NAIRA

internal abi external?

even external 250gb usb harddisks don't cost that much

use linux, windows programs don't work on it; you can download some livecd like puppylinux or damnsmalllinux (dsl)
both of which are under 100mb; the latest version of puppy linux is about (+/-)90mb but you can get older versions which
are a little over 50mb, dsl too is about 50mb download the iso and burn to disk as an image then boot from the cd; you can even
remove the cd after booting (with puppy by default, with dsl you have to specify some boot option)

windows vista? i HATE windows vista and i pray i never have that os on any of my pcs; instead of that i'll rather forat it and put linux or bsd;
man i was assigned a laptop in my office - ok it had just 1gb of ram but all the same without installing anything it was using 40% of my ram aaargh!
spent half the rest of the day downgrading to xp and getting suitable drivers

but i hear windows 7 is much faster and memory efficient than vista; and you know that copy and paste thing that you do in command prompt
in xp? you can't do it in vista - at least not the editions of vista that i've had the misfortune to use in fact the only things i like about vista are the
advanced utilities like task manager and the fact that i can resize my harddisk - to an extent without formatting

@lynxnoon
so how far so far with puppy linux?
my main grouse with it is that i have to run as root and it doesn't automatically mount partitions
even when i specify in /etc/fstab

God forgive all those "professional beggars", thay want to reap where they haven't sown;
instead of going back to their villages to work. Anyway it's still better than the yahoo/419
scammers

waterworks:
EHNN CAN U IMAGINE? 3K DAILY FOR FREE AND THEY ARE STILL COMPLAINING?
THEY ARE MAKING MORE THAN A LOT OF PEOPLE!
making more than all dose jobless graduates out there. making mch more than some who even have jobs. i can say now that i actually respect them more now! wat the hell? can u imagine meanwhile u are bring from ure pocket to give those making more than u!

and the worst part is that it's that a lot of the money they are making are from these people who
are not making as much money as they are;imagine paying someone more than you are earning - for free!!!

i'm tired of people saying that nigerians living abroad should come back and fix this country; let us face facts, there are
elements in this country who will frustrate (or at least try their best to do so) anyone who tries to move this country forward
i've heard stories of people who wanted to repair a road and were contacted by the youths/LG/area boys ( i don't know which exactly)
that they had to settle them first (as if these people won't benefit from the roads being fixed). Truth is there are people in high places benefiting
from the fact that things are not working in this country

you know you should add: just then the alarm rings for a fire drill ,

no, i dont like it; so it means i will travel everytime i want to buy computer hardware; hold-up galore

the government has got it all wrong; before they deregulate fuel the first r\thing they should deregulate is the government, remove all those 419 people who are chopping our money instead of giving them subsidy (or immunity)
maybe it's time for us to look to other sources of fuel like ethanol so that we can obtain our fuel from agriculture and put those kidnapping terrorists in the south out f business

na lie dis person want make we insult am; well guys who wants to throw the first stone?

e be like say some peole no dey read Efe n jude cartoon 4 punch, na di day di woman go carry u like pikin come throwcomot window you go know say some women day wey dem no dey joke with

ridiculous question, why not add loyalty to company or faithfulness to your spouse? being open woth your spouse does not mean telling the peron EVERYTHING i mean if my spouse told me her best friend's most intimate secrets i would wonder what kind of friend she was

SeanT21:
~~LMAO~~

That lady should be happy that man did not get physical with her!!

i'm sure the man tried and failed before going to court; which man in his right sense will go to look for
an outside solution to an issue that he can handle for himself

reminds me of the Efe and Jude cartoons in the punch newspaper; that's one of the reasons i lie low
around big women

eh ya, starcomms get plenty wahala, before they reactivated my internet connection for this month
i had to go to their office a number of times, in fact my line got reactivted a week after i actually
made the payment - and i made the payment at the starcomms office too. ierd thing is if you don't
activate after some time their customer care will call you to find out why
funny people

is this supposed to be a joke?

mother's life at stake - especially when it's clear that the child can't make it either way

what l\kind of a person would go to the world to seek advice about how to handle his problems?
have you gone to your family? what do they say?

awalright:
I was worried after the day we met, the following week after series of phone calls and talks about love (only God knows if she was abusing from the other end),

you no even get shame! after the day you met!! couldn't you even get to know the person a little first?
Meen people it's obvious say dis man no get work, these kinds of posts should be barred

bros go church go give testimony about how God delivered you from making a terrible mistake;
imagine what would have happened if you had married her before you found out

sistawoman:
What is wrong with ambition?

ok maybe i should have said emphasis on independence not just ambition, of course one needs a some ambition to be independent but then some women are so ambitiuos that they drive their men into compromising their values - ok this is not an english class so i will stop here b4 i bore someone