I am in Swindon and would be happy to help.
Steve
2008/12/3 Andy Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Alan,
>
> I'm not in the Swindon area - but would be very interested to hear more
> from this person. I'm also not on the edubuntu lists - any chance you
> can post this response to the list for me t
Hi Lou
Yes, the PC should boot from the CD and give you a menu. One option will be
to run ubuntu without installing, next will be to install, then I think
there's a memory test and a disk check option, may be another one or two
options but I can't remember now.
If you don't see the menu, the CD
If you are installing from a boot CD you have burnt from a fresh download
into a newly formatted partition, it won't know about the old installation
until it looks to configure Grub (I think), so it must be either the CD, or
a hardware issue that is stopping it.
As Lee suggests, the first thing to
Hi again Dianne,
If you know the IP address of the router, you should just be able to ping
that if the card is working and configured correctly.
I assume that you haven't used the network interface before as you were
using USB.
Can you see it if you do lspci at a terminal?
If not is the network
Hi Dianne
If the router is working, then it must be your connection somewhere along
the line.
I have a NTLWorld cable modem that must be 6 years old at least, it has USB
and Ethernet. I have a Linksys router connected via ethernet that is
providing DCHP and that connects to whichever computer as
HI Dianne,
>From a purely non OS perspective of this, are you using the same network
cable as your husband? just to be sure.
You say it has ethernet connection*s*, is it a router as well or do you have
to switch the cable? If you have to switch the cable, are you rebooting the
modem when switching
