There is a newer version of Ubuntu available for free (even on cd). Why don't you switch?
I have tried without success to find step by step instructions to connect my ubuntu to the dsl internet, something easy enough for a dummy. Can someone please help me?
I have installed Ubuntu 4.0 warty on my IBM laptop Thinkpad T20 (solo NOT dual operating systems)
I plugged in the ethernet to the laptop, and the other end to the DSL modem. With my Windows computers, the internet would jump alive the moment I click on the browser, whether Firefox or Internet Explorer. But with ubuntu, when I click on the mozilla browser, it said it cannot connect to www.mozilla. org, or any other URL that I typed in. It said it is not hooked up.
As an alternative, I used my wireless router (Buffalo Airstation), and inserted an a/b/g Orinoco wireless pc card into the ubuntu laptop, and went thru the process of system/network config. It did not even ask for a driver, but asked whether to enable the wireless devise, to which I answered "Yes". (I also tried installing the Linux driver that came on the CD with the Orinoco adapter, but the driver just did not respond to my clicks).
Anyway, at the top right corner of the screen, ubuntu shows the signal percentage fluctuating between 75% to 92%, which seems Orinoco is responding, at least in a small way. (Usually, on my Windows laptop, the Orinoco card's LED lights would both flicker together, to show power and activity were responding, but now in ubuntu, the LED lights have become just a very thin light, instead of the regular thick LED light.) But the browser just couldn't connect to the any URLs at all. Meanwhile the same URLs work perfectly on my windows wireless laptop sitting nearby. I even disabled the MAC filtering in the router to enable this ubuntu connection.
In my system/network config for both the wireless and wired, I also tried various ways, Automatic, as well as manually setting the IP and DNS.
Can you please help explain, in simple layman language, step by step ......
Thanks.

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