men i've been thinking of this issue now for days. i've been using windows all my life all of a sudden i decided to do something crazy and i picked up a linux cd and installed it. i run both on my pc. so far i haven't achieved much. You know linux might never catch up with windows in the number of customers why? linux generally isn't user friendly i can site examples. i have about three modems a motorola l6 on entering linux it detected it easily i was happy i said linux must be very powerful next i found my way to internet connection for me to pick my modem i saw
"/tty/ bla bla bla. my point exactly if it were windows it would just say motorola l6 although in the fardware manager it showed it but i don't even know any of the modems cos it gives different slah options linux got to step up and even the attitude of those using it is one of the things killing it. it safe secured but nearly immposible i dont even know where the sql server is on it. it didn't detect my vga card properly so games hang even to update it i don't know i use red hat version9.2 help needed

There are people who won't whole heartedly agree with me, but click and download this Linux distro. By the time you are thru, you won't be the same. Trust me.

hm ubantu i heard about the distribution but would it answer my /tty bla bla bla question would i be able to browse on it with my motorola l6 modem that is the issue. also my internet connection is slow its vmobile dialup so what is the way out where can i get the cd.Thanks for the ubantu info i should give it a try

lilo aka Rob Levin was one of the key people behind the freenode IRC network, on which all of Ubuntu’s IRC chat rooms are offered. Its the first IRC network I ever used, and the one I use the most. Rob was the driving force behind freenode, and freenode is a free service. Ergo, he’s had to live a pretty simple life - not a “rich” life by any means.

lilo passed away earlier in the day. I came to know this through a friend’s blog. Looks like he was killed in a hit-and-run road accident while riding his bike.

I once chatted with him, and he came across as a very nice, humble guy. I even wrote on my blog asking folks to lend him a helping hand, and became a freenode donor myself. I strongly believe that every one of us should pitch in and help support those who dedicate their lives to making ours better.

Thank you lilo, and thanks to all the folks who work on Linux, Ubuntu, and everything that is free and good.

lilo will certainly be missed. My heartfelt condolences to his family. They too have paid a price for the freedom I enjoy, and they’ll be missing him far more than I do.

http://ubuntu./2006/09/17/lilo-will-be-missed/

what a pity i never knew who he was but he sound real important anyway Chxta plz reply my post about browsing with my motorola l6 cos that the only way i get to connect to the web and u know it's tieing me down to windows
thanks

Lazy windows user just because u did not understand how linux rendered your phone so that is why you conclude linux may never catch up windows. I use a windows mobile 2003se smartphone,  windows xp does not even have a native driver 4 it as a usb device not 2 talk of detecting my modem plus windows mediaplayer does not see it, you know copy to device option.You call vactive wap a dial up? So stop criticising am a windows power user and have used linux for quite a while now. Have worked with 98 upward both as an engineer and desktop publisher and knows their limitations. Stop criticising linux.     

esquire, wat exactly is ur point? As far as am concerned, u dint solve adewale's problem. U may b a don but man uve gotta step down a little 2 help a noob. If u av a solution, we'l b glad 2 learn 4m ur wealth of experience. wats wrong with vmobile's wap? if it satisfies his needs, no prob!

adewale, ps can u give us more info? i browse wit my se k700i on my linux pc using bluetooth wit vmobile.

thanks fisayo jare, well my pc doesn't have a BT prot however after messing up wit my linux this morning i found some real cool stuff i was able to make my pc look finer than most windows thanks to KDE. thats by the way mr esquire i run Vinternet and not wap, which is GPRS dialup service. also while snooping i found Kmobile tools which allows you to run your mobile via a usb cable the problem was its for Suse 10.0 RPM Ubuntu Breezy wud it work for linux redhat 9 heres the link http://www.kmobiletools.org/downloads

adewale, i tink d first tin 2 do is to upgrade or change ur linux distro. chxta recommended ubuntu & i support him. RH9 is quite old - fedora is better. i use suse
on my machine. mandriva is also very good. d only problem i c is ow you can get linux cds. i wish i can help u wit dat. i hope to gist more wen i use my computer. by d way, i assume ure using usb 2 connect 2 ur machine, r u? Takia

yes i use usb to get the cd's is just the problem well i try and fin it. thanks

adewale, i tink d first tin 2 do is to upgrade or change ur linux distro. chxta recommended ubuntu & i support him. RH9 is quite old - fedora is better. i use suse
on my machine. mandriva is also very good. d only problem i c is ow you can get linux cds. i wish i can help u wit dat. i hope to gist more wen i use my computer. by d way, i assume ure using usb 2 connect 2 ur machine, r u? Takia

thanks fisayo i use a usb cable can i get the cd at ikeja

Too bad how 2 of u Adewale & Fisayo turn me a Ogree or monster. You know its like after reading linux myth my thinking change on how people condem something. Adewale if  have wronged you in anyway am truely sorry please (omode l'on se mi). I am a learner like all of us not in anyway a don as Fisayo puts it, by the way see Fisayo who is talkin i read all your post and was tripped. Hmm, you're such a geek. I need 2 learn from u, so when is the tutorial gonna commence       seriously now am planning 2 dump redhat but i need 2 know 2 compile softwares i.e software installation both open source and non open source any suggestions will be highly welcomed and after i will install suse so that u always help me out of my problems. Adewale, Brotherman please i need all the procedure you use in configuring your phone with your system maybe that will help me cause i do all posting and surfing with my phone alone. Post the configuration steps both in linux and windows my phone is Sagem mys-7 thanks Adewale & once again am sorry to have talked that way. Cheerio.

ok no problem follow this link and not it might not work instantly but it really does. atip make sure you connect first on your phone before trying it on your pc that would make it easier 4u
http://www.mail-archive.com/gsmtoday@freelists.org/msg00182.html
although its a bit old but very useful just send gprsinternet phonemaker phonemodel. ok if you have any problem just pm me. It should be the same process in linux what differs is with what you communicate with your phone

Am not just using the internet service even before Vmobile started dishing out internet service thats what my phone uses and it was configured at Vshop at Ikeja and all my post in this nairaland is done wit my phone. I tried configuring it but thing did not just go my way so i'll like an advance explanation on how to in about it.

My latest screen shot running Kubuntu with KDE 3.5.4 and google earth

its normal to encounter problems mine didn't work for like 2days before it started plz tell me what the problem is or what error message is it giving you.

If it were 2 be error message by the browser it will still be good at least i'll know am on the right track. Xp keeps asking for the driver which i fed the companion cd into d cd rom it said my driver was loaded and i was happy for 2 ask for the driver every time i connect d phone 2 d system which if i tried repeating d above step it gave me some kind of rubbish error i search for the modem manually from d device manager but all was just a nightmare. Thanks brotherman further assistance will be appreciated.

ok lets start over go to control panel and remove any thing that looks like your phone cos i think you might need to querry the modem from the phone and modem option in control panel, if that doesn't work then do a fresh installation of your phone driver. if your fone uses a usb cable make sure the port u use would be the one u'll be using throughout. insert your phone and manually locate the driver after installing, then querry the modem from the phone and modem option in control panel to confirm if it was successful

thanks to skima now i got ubuntu, it looks ok except that i can't seem to find where KDE is hiding i tried looking in the add or remove but theres nothing like kde even to add other programs its asking for internet connection plz help me
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Dey on the system runing Kubuntu and have finally deleted my redhat partition and have run the live cd of both Ubuntu and Kubuntu and have decided 2 settle with the later and cos am a KDE man so am presently on the beautiful KDE environment will hit you back when am thru. Hey everybody where is Fisayo i command you by thunder and fire come out of your hiding place   . Fisayo where you @.

@ adewaleafolabi, when did you ask?

@Chxta
thanks i got it from him yesterday, i saw his message and called him on sunday evening around 7 o'clock i tink

@esquire
has your phone started browsing yet? and that gnome environment is so frustrating but still better than my old redhat environment KDE Rules

esquire, ur prayas r hot, i'm out! i am deeply Sry i misinterpreted ur thread, ma binu o!
adewale, congrats on d cd. ubuntu is gnome based so ure stuck wit it unless u use kubuntu which is kde based.
i hope u guys av started to browse on ur pcs?
if u want to knw d device address 4 ur phone, der r diff methods 4 each 4m of connectivity.
for serial port, it is /dev/ttyS0 which is d same as COM1

, on windows. ttyS1 is COM2 on win, etc.

4 a usb device, it's /dev/ttyUSB0 if it's d first or only usb device. it can b USB[1,2,3,etc] depending on kind of device. a cool way of checking is typing dis command 'dmesg | grep USB' , u should c d exact address of d device. bluetooth and ir r not so straightforward. wen i get 2 use my pc, i hope 2 shed more lite. ps bear wit me. happy computing

Chxta have finally gotten rid of my redhat 2day and have KDE runing on my box right now thanks 4 the advice. I got my Ubuntu package on monday afternoon and i must confess Kubuntu roooccckkk! Ade baba am still wit d trouble of browsing and posting wit ma phone well sha am ok 4 now my phone is fast you know it uses pocket internet explorer. Yeye man you want the kind awuf wey redhat give you gnome and KDE 2gether on the same os . Kubuntu is based on KDE alone, for you 2 get gnome you'll have 2 install Ubuntu or better still you install gnome (Ubuntu) and download and install latest KDE at kde-look.org. if you get any cool site for KDE enhancement do let me know brotherman. Hey iron lady (Fisayo) where you hide all these while, men see as she just sound refreshed, describe d place 4 me make me sef go gbadun my life.Thanks 4 d stuffs girl. cheerio  

Chxta have not seen your Ubuntu Linux thread around for a while now. Since you almost initiated everybody including me in using the almighty Ubuntu which i my self is propagating the good news every where i get d opportunity 2 talk bout computer. You need 2 like raise the thread from it slumber and you'll be amazed by how many Ubuntu linux user we have in the house most of which are courtesy of you and provide some kind of miniature support 2 all d noobs in the house. we go dey pay you salary . Seriously man i need 2 see that thread among the top 5 always. peace man and cheerio

plz this ubuntu stuff is messing up, it can't even recognise my phone properly i use a motorola l6 and it says its an e398 gsm phone whereas on the previous redhat it see's it as a modem whats going on

@fisayo
even the command you gave i tried it and the only thing i can still remember was ACM there was nothing like ttyusb it wasn't just there. it's as if MR GATES is just not going to let me go. mp3 files doesn't open, i used an alba mp3 player and it opened easily and copied the file from it it gives error message. this ubuntu is something else.

@esquire
i think we will be needing those prayers of yours to bring fisayo out incase she doesn't reply quick

@fisayo
thanks to a program i just downloaded, http://fs-driver.org/download/Ext2IFS_1_10b.exe it allows me to copy and even store on my linux partiton from my windows plattform. whle i ran that command you gave(thanks), i brought out this so i saved it. plz interprete it

[4294671.271000] PCI0 UAR1 USB1 USB2 USB3 EHCI AC9 MC9 ILAN SLPB
[4294675.144000] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
[4294675.145000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus num ber 1
[4294675.145000] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[4294675.246000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus num ber 2
[4294675.246000] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[4294675.347000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus num ber 3
[4294675.347000] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[4294675.451000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus num ber 4
[4294675.451000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 De c 2004
[4294675.451000] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[4294676.490000] usb 1-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[4294676.934000] usb 3-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[4294689.256000] input: Chicony USB Keyboard as /class/input/input0
[4294689.256000] input: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [Chicony USB Keyboard] on usb-00 00:00:10.0-2
[4294689.341000] input: Chicony USB Keyboard as /class/input/input1
[4294689.341000] input,hiddev96: USB HID v1.00 Device [Chicony USB Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:10.0-2
[4294689.362000] input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [HID 062a:0000] on usb-0000:00:10.2- 1
[4294689.362000] drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
[4294805.913000] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[4294806.236000] cdc_acm 2-1:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
[4294806.242000] drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c: v0.23:USB Abstract Control Model d river for USB modems and ISDN adapters
[4295315.698000] usb 3-1: USB disconnect, address 2
[4295341.496000] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 2
[4295471.457000] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 2
[4295478.163000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[4295478.693000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
[4295479.223000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
[4295479.733000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6
[4295605.413000] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 7
[4295605.571000] cdc_acm 1-2:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
[4295707.707000] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 7
[4295718.163000] usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[4295718.448000] input: Chicony USB Keyboard as /class/input/input5
[4295718.448000] input: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [Chicony USB Keyboard] on usb-00 00:00:10.1-2
[4295718.535000] input: Chicony USB Keyboard as /class/input/input6
[4295718.535000] input,hiddev96: USB HID v1.00 Device [Chicony USB Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:10.1-2
[4295725.612000] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
[4295725.782000] cdc_acm 2-1:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
[4295748.913000] usb 3-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[4295749.076000] input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [HID 062a:0000] on usb-0000:00:10.2- 1
wale@wale-desktop:~$

whats this acm about plz help me

@ Afo, I've left a reply concerning your phone on the Ubuntu thread.

I recommend installing compiz/xgl on Ubuntu. It looks just fucking amazing guys! I still think there are other things that should be done to make it look cooler, but I just love the Cube and the Wobbly stuff, plus the transperency it offers.

Any tips?

More desktops to come

Now that is cool. Its such a pity Ubuntu cannot work seamlessly on the intel macs cos I want to get me a macbook. I might have to leave Ubuntu for Fedora or Suse who support the macbook without much stress.

Jogego it does work on the Macbook. . .

http://desrt.mcmaster.ca/macbook.xhtml