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A number of ways you can get your MAC :)

If it's a laptop, it will usually be printed somewhere on the bottom of the system.

You can also find it by entering
ifconfig in a Terminal window....

Just a thought here, have you asked the owner of the router/connection to forward a port for you? If they're willing to make an exception for you then you'll save a lot of trouble :)

You could look up something called reverse SSH tunneling. This requires however that you set up the connection on the home computer first.

I can't offer much more detail as it isn't my forte

Try booting into your previous kernel. You should have the option to do this when the Grub screen appears at startup. See if this makes a difference :)

Just to clarify, were you running Ubuntu as an app inside Windows (like this) or did you use something called Wubi?

Also, what version of Windows were you running?

Good to hear it's sorted :)

Hm. What happens when you try to access it via Terminal?

Open a terminal window and try these commands. Post the output if you can :)


cd .wine
ls

If you aren't using anything...

Click: Booting from USB.

Is this of any help?

DFlame

Everything seems to be working perfectly. Is UTStarcom the name of the network you need to connect to?

Failing that, what exactly are you trying to connect to wirelessly?

It does appear to be running. Lets see if we can detect any networks in Terminal:


sudo iwlist eth1 scan

Post any errors/output :)

Thanks for the info. A little research into the model of your card has yielded this:


sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source

Try that command in the terminal, then restart the computer. This...

Glad I could help, even if it was just a teensy bit :)

Thanks for the tip :). I don't think I can help with GRUB not loading, however. Someone with a little more experience may drop by soon.

This supposedly has wireless built in. Are you having trouble using it or detecting networks?

Open a Terminal window and post the output of the following commands here:


ifconfig
iwconfig...

You should be able to append to the lines by editing the /boot/grub/menu.lst (or /boot/grub/grub.cfg if you are using GRUB2) file as root. When saved, the changes will "stick"

Eg:
gksu gedit...

Try:


ubuntuzilla.py

in Terminal. My mistake there :P

You're using an LTS release, so you are a bit behind. I'm using FF 3.5.4 and Pidgin 2.5.5. The latter has the browser tab you are looking for.

You can get the latest version of Firefox by...

If you really like XFCE, you might want to consider installing the very basic command line Ubuntu, then building upwards from there. This ensures that it is only as big as you want it to be, and...

http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/9.10/

Try using the Alternate install CD instead, you may have some success.

1. First of all, you don't need to install it to try it. The OS will run from the CD for as long as you need to make the decision whether to install or not.

Installing a dualboot will allow you to...

Any use: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubuntu-help/153415-change-users-username-ubuntu.html ?

Well we're halfway there :) While you're in the older kernel, revert any configuration changes you've made to attempt to resolve the problem if you can, then restart the computer with your regular...

Yes, this can be shown by:

nano /etc/passwd

Again, be incredibly careful here. Changes to this file can easily break the system. You can exit the nano editor without changing anything by Ctrl-x...

As there was a kernel update, let's begin by trying the previous kernel to see if that resolves the issue first.

Restart the computer, and hit Esc when prompted to show the GRUB boot menu. You...

Take out all drives with the exception of the data drive. You may then have some luck recovering with a TestDisk CD

I've linked to the wiki, but I'm sure there are some other detailed guides out...