Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile broadband modems - using them on multiple networks
Rob, I am using the Huawei E220 with Vodafone on Intrepid 8.10 The laptop is an EI systems 13 inch screen. The broadband worked straight away. Douglas On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 10:35 +, Tony Arnold wrote: > Rob, > > Rob Beard wrote: > > > Now I was wondering if it's just a case of plugging the modem in and > > changing the profile settings, or do the modems need some sort of > > firmware update to unlock them? > > I tried a friends 3G USB modem from 3 recently. I pluged it in to my > laptop running Intrepid, and a window popped up saying a new mobile > broadband device had been discovered. It hen took me through a wizard > that just asked me who was providing the service and that was it, it > just worked! I could then use Network Manager to select the 3G > connection and all was good. I was very impressed. > > Regards, > Tony. > -- > Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 > Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 > University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 > Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk > signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] new internet cafe using ubuntu (not in the UK)
Dear All, On holiday in Zambia I came across an Internet cafe converting to Ubuntu. It is the Kilimanjaro cafe at the Manda Hill shopping centre. If any of you ever go to the country, please use it. They were set up for wireless access, too. (My wife is Zambian hence my visit.) Douglas Chanda-Campbell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Memory problems with Gutsy and OpenOffice
Hi This is my first post too from someone who is generally a very satisfied convert to Ubuntu. I have not had the difficulty you experienced with OpenOffice Cal but I have encountered a problem using OpenOffice Draw on my Latitude X1. The program will not open any drawing and just goes into recover mode. This is a problem as I have embedded some drawings on one chapter of my thesis which I am trying to finish. Sadly, the only way I can alter the drawings is by going to another operating system. Any comments or suggestions to solve this would be appreciated. Douglas On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 00:33 +0100, les wrote: > Hello, > > A first post by someone who has been lurking for some time, picking up > useful bits of information. > > I used Synaptic to upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy, and now find that > OpenOffice Calc slows right down and can freeze my computer after a few > minutes of use. Using System Monitor shows that memory usage climbs to > about 95% (of 512 Mb) whereupon things grind to halt with the hard drive >running continuously. I had previously noticed that System Monitor > reported the swap size as 7.8 Mb, whereas I thought I had a swap > partition of something like 512 Mb, but I never bothered much about this > as there did not seem to be any problems when I was using Feisty - I > thought that maybe it was being reported wrongly. However, GParted > showed that the swap partition was only indeed about 8 Mb, and so I > increased it to about 512 Mb. However, the swap size still appears to be > only 8 Mb after re-booting and using > sudo swapoff -a > sudo swapon /dev/sdb5 > sudo swapon -s > Any suggestions as to how I can get all the swap partition into use? > > Also, has anyone else had similar problems with OpenOffice and Gutsy? I > have used Google to try to find out about this, but although there are > some problems being reported, none of them seem to be related to mine. > So far I have re-installed OpenOffice Calc without any improvement, but > have still to try re-installing the whole OpenOffice suite. > > One other problem with the upgrade was that VMplayer no longer worked - > I had to uninstall it and download the latest version from the VMware > website to get it working again. > > Les. > > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Problem installing R packages
Dear all Ubuntu users I am an otherwise happy user working on my PhD. I am trying to download some packages for the R statistics program but come up with the following messages: trying URL 'http://www.sourcekeg.co.uk/cran/src/contrib/QCAGUI_1.2-7.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-tar' length 1017887 bytes opened URL == downloaded 994Kb mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/00LOCK': Permission denied ERROR: failed to lock directory '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library' for modifying The downloaded packages are in /tmp/RtmpJxvMD5/downloaded_packages Warning messages: 1: installation of package 'QCAGUI' had non-zero exit status in: install.packages() 2: cannot create HTML package index in: tools:::unix.packages.html(.Library) Does anyone have any suggestions, please about how I can unlock the appropriate directory. Many thanks Douglas -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
