On Friday 07 October 2011 08:47:49 james o'regan wrote: > I have a netbook with mint & fodera, great. > Just bought a new laptop that was configured with open suse, > kubuntu & pardus; the shop couldn't enable mobile broadband. > I live in the bush, i unfortunately have to be with telstra next > g, phone & mobile broadband usb. > I am really quite new to computers. Any advice would be > appreciated.
Lived in the bush myself. for Mint and Kubuntu you can probably start with wicd and wi-fi radar. Use 'apt-cache search wicd' or 'apt-cache search wi-fi radar' for those in a terminal window. You should be able to open a terminal by searching your desktop menu. Install with 'sudo apt-get install wicd'. You will be asked for the password that you used when you login to Mint or Kubuntu. I know that doing things this way is an advanced topic for you but I'm trying to teach you something. See also the software managment tools in the Mint and Kubuntu desktops. These are point and click. You should be able to understand them. For openSuSE and Fedora you can use Yum in the terminal. Such as 'yum search wicd'. 'yum install wicd'. Also, in SuSE use YaST. This will find and install software for you. In all of these you can search for "wi-fi" or "USB dongle". You should find something useful with that. Meanwhile. People on this list probably need to understand which USB dongle you are using. You can do 'lsusb -v' and copy and paste the output to this list so that we can understand which USB hardware you are using. I know this is an advanced subject for yourself but we have to understand a few things to help you. -- Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
