Re: Ubuntu 5.10 + How to connect to Internet

Thanks for all the follow-ups,

I wish to thank each of you for all of the prompt and helpful advice. I realize now that I didn't properly list enough information in the first post. It is an internal winmodem, a Conexant D850 and I am using XP-SP2.

I followed a few of the links, such as the one that told me the difference between a hardware modem and a software modem and how software modems were difficult to make work with Linux if possible at all. I was not prepared to go out and buy new modems and things.

When I installed Ubuntu, I didn't realize that things would be so different and hard for me to become accustomed too. I mean, I couldn't sign on to the Internet, couldn't open any file that I had on any of my CD's and didn't have a way to download whatever I may have needed to make that possible, my printer was non-operational, etc...

I ordered the Ubuntu CD's because I had read on various websites that Ubuntu was user friendly, easy to setup, great for Windows users who may want to switch over and give Linux a try, etc... I just do not believe that I am ready for it though. I have used Windows machines for over 10 years and thought that I knew a little about computers, not any deep, low level knowledge, but fairly capable on a Windows machine anyway.

To be honest though, I did not have a clue as to where to even begin using Ubuntu and making it into something that would be easy for me to use. I knew how to open the pre-installed things like Open Office, the games, etc... I felt like a matchstick in the wind when it came to all of the commands and codes that were required to do just the simplest thing, my flame of interest was blown out fairly quickly.

So, I just uninstalled it and have basically just given up I suppose. There was never anything wrong with my XP installation anyway, I just thought I would give Linux a try. I am not one of those that constantly get viruses and malware with Windows, I just use a little common sense and take proper preventative precautions, as a matter of fact, I have been 10 years without a virus. But I had heard such good things about Linux from various people in newsgroups, and on different websites and was just curious.


Thank you all very much,

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