more specifically (now booted to ubuntu) My version of ubuntu is 5.04, but it should work similarly for your version (5.10):
A. You need to be online. Options are - if you have another computer running windows get it online and use Internet Connection Sharing. Or go to a friends as previously suggested. Or get it working via modem. Or do it at a meeting at St Albans. Or borrow an ethernet-connected ADSL modem from one of the kind souls who has already offered. 1. Once you are online, Go to the System menu and choose Administration then Synaptic Package Manager. You will be asked for your password, enter it. 2. Once you are in synaptic go to the Settings menu then Repositories. This defines the places that ubuntu will go to to get packages to install. 3. The package you want is in the "Universe" repository so you need click "Add" then tick the "Community Maintained (Universe)" box and click "OK". Ubuntu will then download a list of the available packages. 4. Once back to the synaptic main window click on "Search" and enter eciadsl in the search box, click the button and it should return one package. Right click on the line and choose "Mark for Installation" - it may tell you that other packages are also needed, thats just fine. 5. Click "apply" and it should give you a dialog asking you to confirm what is about to happen. If it looks ok click "apply" and it will download and install the packages you need. 6. In the dialog "Installing Software" you may need to click the button that says "Terminal" and type "Y" to the question about restarting services. S**T. At this point realise that the ubuntu eciadsl-0.10 package seems to lack the setup binaries, and the firmware files. What an ass of a package. I wonder if 0.11 is any better. Further reporting later, but as I don't have the modem it is hard to see whether it will ultimately work. On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 11:55 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > eciadsl appears to be in the universe repository for ubuntu, so I think > that would be a better option than adding the repository suggested by > Chris (in fact I am not even sure that the download directory he gave > _is_ actually an apt-get repository.) > > So Bernard, my recommendation: > > 1. get your machine online via someone elses network (friend with adsl > and a lan?) > > 2. add the universe repository to your synaptic setup > > 3. use synaptic to install eciadsl. > > Someone should be able to help you, but you will need to get your > machine onto the net -
