Virgin Mobile Broadband

2008-01-08 Thread Mark M Lambert
Hi folks, I have a friend that wants to dump Vista and try Ubuntu on her laptop. She uses a Virgin Mobile Broadband USB modem (on the 3G network) and I can't find any easy ways of getting it to work in Linux. Has anyone on this list had any success with a similar device? Thanks, Mark --

Re: Ubuntu server trouble

2008-01-08 Thread Nathan Herholdt
Hello, Where do I find this part of Ubuntu, is it on the normal Ubuntu disk? Then how do I install it to run on the server? Thanks Nathan VK6DNA - Original Message From: Jackson Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Nathan Herholdt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 9 January, 2008 12:11:00 AM

Re: Reminder to reply all.

2008-01-08 Thread Simon Wong
On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 20:04 +1100, Blindraven wrote: I'm ranting, in short. Reply All. Agreed, however, I think the generally accepted mailing list etiquette is to keep all emails sent and received via the list rather than directly to people anyway. My 2c ;-) -- Simon Wong BEng MCompSc MACS

Re: Ubuntu server trouble

2008-01-08 Thread Nathan Herholdt
Hi again, When I try to login as root or su it says I have an authentication problem. Therefore I cannot enter the stage to add the GUI. Could someone give me step by step pointers to install. Thanks Nathan VK67DNA - Original Message From: Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Junin Toiro

Re: Ubuntu server trouble

2008-01-08 Thread Daniel Mons
Ubuntu doesn't come with an available root account. Instead it creates a primary user with sudo access for administration purposes. su will require the root password (which I believe in Ubuntu is a very long random string by default, and unlikely to be guessed). Similarly, logging in as root