hi there m8..

am fresh of windows xp.. wanna try linux so i got ubuntu 5.04.. not installed it yet though.. gotta free up some space..

but wat i wanna ask is.. will my DSL modem get configured in ubuntu.. i heard linux distros got no problem with detectin DSL thro PPPoE but my DSL modem is a USB modem.. model is GlobeSpan Virata Tera 100u..

more info about my modem is here..

this is a picture
http://img326.imageshack.us/img326/3...slmodem2wp.jpg

and more info here
http://http://www.linuxquestions.org...p?product=1730

so is it possible to use it with ubuntu.. cuz i've looked around for linux drivers n am unable to find em.. is there anyother way to work around it...

btw i'm a newbie to de world of linux.. so i may ask some really stupid doubts.. plz bear with em:-)

Best bet is to get a ethernet/lan card so that u can have pppoe thus Internet!.watch the thread having same issue?


http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...=1#post2134465

thx deepclutch for ur reply.. i'm watchin that thread...

but de prob is i already bought this modem from airtel... if i had it in rent they would have probably changed it to an ethernet one free of cost..

so i got no choice but to stick with my usb modem.. and thats the only thing preventing me from movin to linux completely from xp...

more info about my modem is here..

this is a picture
http://img326.imageshack.us/img326/3...slmodem2wp.jpg

and more info here
http://http://www.linuxquestions.org...p?product=1730

looks like no one has seen more info on de modem....

k i'll edit de main post so ppl can see it first time around..

NEWZ PPL!!!!

i've installed ubuntu.. got stuck up at de partitioning part but i figured that out..

surprise.. i can see my modem listed under the devices tab in ubuntu... i want to know if my modem is actually detected yet and wat must i do to configure it.. i need to configure it for a PPP connection.. see my DSL modem plugs through USB..

buy an ethernet rooter with an inbuilt ADSL moden

USB modens dont work well with linux and if you get it working it will never work as well as it did in windows

you will need to make shoure that linuxs sees your ethernet card with is usually fine. The advantage with this is that you can wire up lots of computers and shear the net connection with as many computers as you like with no extra cost to you internet bill and tend to be more stabler than USB modems and the like. make shoure that your rooter has an in built ADSL modem


if you need dail up the a serial modem will do that job rember
that they are all hardware modems with an easy interface that is easy for linux and windows to command

the reasion for these silly USB modems and many if not all PCI cards is that they use computer programs to take a way electronic hardware that cost the consuma letting the computer doing some of the work and tend to be smaller to and cheeper [ some times they may say hardware moden PCI or USB, just egnore them ] often called
winmodems






here are such models UK web site.


http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...ice&show=stock

thx dude.. am lookin up at routers too.. is it possible to plug my existing modem into it..

no just buy a rooter with an inbuilt ADSL modem you can not plug USB modems in to rooters

ic.. will the router work with any connection.. i mean ISP!!

yes just make shoure that it has an inbuilt ADSL modem - and you have a working ethernet card. please do some reshirce in to this have alook on the net and make shoure it has an inbuilt modem

I recintly seen this project that has some support for USB modems you could have alook and see if they support it. but most people on hear get it through ethernet as I do they have suppot for my adsl modem sent to me from AOL [UK]

have alook hear I have used linux for 3 years on and off and still not got it working yet only tryed this once have alook though you dont need any changes to the kernel of kernel modules so it looks easy

http://eciadsl.flashtux.org/tutorial.php

agen have alook through the back end of the website for informaton



I am sill glad i bought my rooter 100%


rember that wifi adaptors are not supported or are just to flaky

some are though! just dont risk it with out some rechearch first


I just tryed to get it working to build up my linux knollege
before that i never botherd

it should work with all ISP's - do buy one from your contry though