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  1. Re: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Help: Can not connect to any Wifi networks even with wifi card,

    Hi, I just went through two weeks of frustration trying to get a previously working usb 4g modem working, all to no avail. What worked was turning off modem manager. Network manager then worked. It...
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    [SOLVED] Re: 16.04 usb modem went nuts

    I can't really say this is solved, because normal config still does not work with 16.04 fully updated. I got my 4g usb modem, that wants to connect as a wired ethernet connection, working by turning...
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    [SOLVED] Re: 16.04 usb modem went nuts

    Hi! Thanks for the reply. Tried your suggestion, no joy. Did find out the system battery was bad though, the mobo battery, I'll look for a new one. Besides that, same behavior with modem. It's really...
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    [SOLVED] 16.04 usb modem went nuts

    Hi guys! A few weeks ago now my franklin u772 usb modem started getting wonky, frequent reboots necessary to keep it up then finally it quit. I exchanged it for a new one, same deal, starts, stops...
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    why thank you very much

    That was quite the speedy reply and I certainly will try it shortly when I lose right click functionality. I wasn't trying to come across as a big whiner, but to me those two things I am getting are...
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    Same here, right click is borked

    I can open Ff4 fine, after that last update when it overrode my 3.6 I had running...which I didn't want to happen... then after a little while I lose all right click functionality you describe, it's...
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    [ubuntu] I think this is the software

    Look on this page

    http://www.novatelwireless.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=162&Itemid=107

    OK, on novatels site they readily admit this works under Linux, but you need that...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Virgin Mobile Broadband2go/bumperoni

    Naw, no WINE, see my other reply below. I *would* chance that download, IF I knew for a fact that it was doable then, if someone had done it previously and reported the A-OK on it. I just don't want...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Virgin Mobile Broadband2go

    Already use sprint through a reseller and my reception is perfectly fine. That is the iden network. The CDMA network is what the dongle runs on and it too gets a good reception, I can plug it in, get...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Virgin Mobile Broadband2go/bumperoni

    Anyone have any clue? I live out in the sticks and am trying to get something approaching broadband here. Cheapest raggiest windows machine around here is a hundred bucks, which I just can't swing...
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    [ubuntu] Virgin Mobile Broadband2go

    I've tried pretty hard to make this USB data device work. So far I have an account I started over their tech support line, they took my money for one month service. I can even login there, I...
  12. [ubuntu] Re: Please help. No internet after upgrading to 9.10

    --if you are this new, why not just go back to what worked? That version is just not that old or out of date, etc. Keep that, then just hold out until 10.4 is released next year, try it live first,...
  13. [SOLVED] Paidbuntu

    --this is exactly why I would be willing to pay a reasonable sum per year (not every six months, that is a ridiculous and untainable goal to have stable releases that fast, it is perpetual alphaware,...
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    Money

    You are willing to spend a lot of money on "windows" and "windows games" and purchasing hardware with stickers on it that say "works with windows version blah blah".

    Now stop and rethink again why...
  15. Poll: Re: six month release cycles suck

    Six months release cycles are based on the equally idiotic notion that the gnome developers have about six month release cycles. it is also a *marketing* not engineering descision. I am perfectly...
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    [ubuntu] what you said

    I have been trying to get a single reply from *anyone* for recommendations of a bluetooth dongle that worked out of the box with no hoop jumping in Karmic. Apparently it doesn't exist.

    At least...
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    [all variants] Hardware sales and bluetooth

    I already asked elsewhere with no takers, but because this is *time critical* I want to ask here as well.

    Looking for a blue tooth dongle that "just worked" out of the box with karmic, with zero...
  18. Poll: six month release cycles suck

    They just do. Just as much broken stuff as allegedly fixed with fast release cycles like that. I mean, look at the forums here and at fedora, thousands of "my stuff was working, then I upgraded and...
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    [ubuntu] Bluetooth dongle success stories?

    I would be interested in hearing _just works_ bluetooth dongle success stories for karmic. I've read a lot of the problems recently so I want to avoid some of the issues by looking to see what worked...
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