Arse. Ubuntu Linux, dodgy installs and Windoze

[matgb]

Right, paulatpingu persuaded me to finally install Ubuntu. It's nice and shiny. Unfortunately, it corrupted my windows install, and won't make a dial up connection.

So that's a formatted hard drive and another start again. Fortunately my data partition remains, so I've got all my stuff. Unfortunately, bookmarksbackup was backing up into the wrong folder, so my last bookmarks are from October. I just spent ages sorting them all out as well. Feck.

If anyone out there knows how to tell a Linux distro, specifically Ubuntu 5.10, how to connect via my USB modem, greatfully received. In the meantime, I'm going on a trawl to get my favoured sites back. Oh, um, wait, I've been linking to most of them anyway. Just the webcomics then...

Oh, last two days, I've been getting a 'busy' tone a bit too often when I try to dial, so I may be forced offline at times :-(

Comments

[paulatpingu.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Google/Ubuntu Forums for the modem drivers - if you're lucky, it'll be supported or there will be a generic driver for it that you can use.

You'll also need a program to dial up with - searching Synaptic for 'PPP' or 'Dial' should come up with something.