Vodafone Mobile Broadband USB stick K3770

**DesireeMeerkatMaverick** · June 15th, 2011

My PC crashed and I replaced Windows XP with Ubuntu. My laptop is still on Windows. Haven't been able to connect to the internet on my PC, Linux IT guy told me there was an issue with drivers on Ubuntu. Was told the Ubuntu community would know how to fix this. I've been reading through the posts and found a similar sort of problem posted with a solution posted also. The solution it seemed, lay in the Sakis website. I went to the Sakis website and downloaded Sakis3G onto my memory stick via my laptop. I need to get internet connectivity on my PC. My friend advised me to put the stick into the PC and then to open the terminal and type the following commands:
gunzip sakis3g.g2 > chmod+xsakis3g > /sakis3g --interactive. Each command on a new line however after typing the first line: gunzip sakis3g.g2, I got 'No such file or directory'.
I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat.
Any suggestions?

**afrodeity** · June 15th, 2011

Originally Posted by DesireeMeerkatMaverick

My PC crashed and I replaced Windows XP with Ubuntu. My laptop is still on Windows. Haven't been able to connect to the internet on my PC, Linux IT guy told me there was an issue with drivers on Ubuntu. Was told the Ubuntu community would know how to fix this. I've been reading through the posts and found a similar sort of problem posted with a solution posted also. The solution it seemed, lay in the Sakis website. I went to the Sakis website and downloaded Sakis3G onto my memory stick via my laptop. I need to get internet connectivity on my PC. My friend advised me to put the stick into the PC and then to open the terminal and type the following commands:
gunzip sakis3g.g2 > chmod+xsakis3g > /sakis3g --interactive. Each command on a new line however after typing the first line: gunzip sakis3g.g2, I got 'No such file or directory'.
I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat.
Any suggestions?

Hi Desiree,

Make sure the sakis3g.gz is either in your home directory, something like /home/Desiree/

or on your desktop, something like /home/Desiree/Desktop

You can shorten the command line like this ~/Desktop

when you chmod you need to do this:

Code:

chmod +x sakis3g

**DesireeMeerkatMaverick** · June 15th, 2011

This is a continuation of the thread I posted during the early hours of Wednesday morning 14 June 2011:

- I went back to the literature on the Sakis website. Discovered in my reading that Sakis is only GSM compatible and not CDMA network compatible. Was advised to try a ls, which listed the files in the directory in which I found myself. Important to be in the right directory, for computer programming novices like myself this is a vital bit of information! To change directory : type cd
  
  and cd ..
  
  to go back up a directory.
- I'm not sure in which directory I should be?

did the list, yielded a listing of various recognizable folders in blue coloured font, e.g. Adobe Indesign, AOL Saved PFC, Contacts, Desktop, Documents, Downloads. Then white font = 'examples.desktop' yielding again blue fonted folder names e.g. Exchange, Favourites, Music, OpenOffice.org 3.2 (en-US) Installation Files, Pictures, Public, Templates: white fonted heading 'The Church Priest = Aura.pls (this is music, a cd and didn't play on the Amarok nor the other media/music app) with again blue fonted folders e.g. Ubuntu One, (the following two are red-fonted and I recognise they're connected to my current issue) usb-modeswitch_1.1.0-2_i386.deb and usb-modeswitch-data_20100127-1_all.deb; followed by blue fonted folder names e.g. Videos, Windows Software, </end/> When I typed in cd > hit enter > and cd ... The response it gave me :- The programme 'and' is not currently installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install and

**DesireeMeerkatMaverick** · June 15th, 2011

Originally Posted by afrodeity

Hi Desiree,

Make sure the sakis3g.gz is either in your home directory, something like /home/Desiree/

or on your desktop, something like /home/Desiree/Desktop

You can shorten the command line like this ~/Desktop

when you chmod you need to do this:

Code:

chmod +x sakis3g

Hi David, please excuse the chaotic manner in which my responses are coming. Figuring my way around the Forum & the rest of it. I guess I should type : ~/Desktop. Having done so I am informed that it's a directory. I guess this is where I type: cd > and cd ... ? Having done so I'm back to 'No such file or directory. What am I doing incorrectly. Please advise?

**afrodeity** · June 15th, 2011

Question 1: Where did you put the file?

If it is on your desktop do this

Code:

cd ~/Desktop

ls

ls = list

cd = change directory

for basic ubuntu commands look here

They not that difficult, it is just a case of familiarity. Let me know when you find the file, otherwise try this

Code:

locate sakis3g

PS: If you need to copy a file from your memory stick you can do this

Code:

cp sakis3g ~/Desktop/

make sure you in the directory where you stick is mounted. Something like this /media/<name of stick>

**DesireeMeerkatMaverick** · June 15th, 2011

David, I guess my question should be: what could be the problem if by typing cd I am back to the initial: desiree@desiree-ubuntu:~$

**DesireeMeerkatMaverick** · June 15th, 2011

Excellent! Will go through the commands you gave and familiarize myself. Will post once I've gotten somewhere!

**afrodeity** · June 15th, 2011

Originally Posted by DesireeMeerkatMaverick

David, I guess my question should be: what could be the problem if by typing cd I am back to the initial: desiree@desiree-ubuntu:~$

You need to cd into somewhere. If you just cd in your home directory you will get desiree@desiree-ubuntu:~$

if you want to move up a directory you cd ..

(that's two dots)

the furthest you can go is /

which is root

the home directory is this

/home/desiree/

media will be mounted here

/media

Ubuntu follows the Linux file hierarchy. It is quite easy once you know how, but can be a stumbling block until you get a good picture in your head of what the file hierarchy looks like. Most linux systems are the same, completely open source.

**DesireeMeerkatMaverick** · June 15th, 2011

Hey there David,
Have located the flash stick which was labelled as PRESARIO_RP; I typed in the command lsusb, and it gave me the following list: Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub; the same classification for Bus 003 & Bus 002, with Bus 001 being duplicated as such:
Bus 001 Device 015: ID 05dc:a781 Lexar Media, Inc. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub. With my mouse I've selected and copied the above into OpenOffice Writer. I've done this because I'm guessing this is the way to save it to my Desktop? Though I've got a niggling thought telling me that I'm only copying the names listed and not the contents of the device?

Checked properties of doc and saw that it was a 9.998KB size, guessed all had been copied, thus saved it to Desktop.Went to Terminal and typed locate <name of doc> and everything flashed in perfect display. Now, I've totally forgotten what to do next, going to check our previous notations.