Re: Modem troubles

2014-01-06 Thread Harish Pillay
Richard - I was on a Toshiba today, Monday, doing a fresh install and could get the modem to connect, given that I could see it and many others. Does anyone have ideas about what I could attempt to get it to connect? Are you referring to a traditional analog modem or a 3G USB dongle? You can

Re: Modem troubles

2014-01-06 Thread Richard Vickery
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Harish Pillay harish.pil...@gmail.comwrote: Richard - I was on a Toshiba today, Monday, doing a fresh install and could get the modem to connect, given that I could see it and many others. Does anyone have ideas about what I could attempt to get it to

Re: Modem troubles

2014-01-06 Thread Harish Pillay
I was on a Toshiba today, Monday, doing a fresh install and could get the modem to connect, given that I could see it and many others. Does anyone have ideas about what I could attempt to get it to connect? Are you referring to a traditional analog modem or a 3G USB dongle? You can

Re: Modem troubles

2014-01-06 Thread Richard Vickery
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Harish Pillay harish.pil...@gmail.comwrote: I was on a Toshiba today, Monday, doing a fresh install and could get the modem to connect, given that I could see it and many others. Does anyone have ideas about what I could attempt to get it to connect?

Re: Modem troubles

2014-01-06 Thread Harish Pillay
Traditional modem, I believe it was / is a cable modem. Cable modems are accessed via the Etnernet port. Does the cable modem connect to the cable company? It was a friends computer, he was very ready to switch from MS Windows 8.1 to Linux; I went over, we installed it, and couldn't get