How do I use a Sprint Broadband card with 8.04?
I cannot get my sprint Novatel u720 to work on my Dell mini 9 running 8.04. I have used the procedure from the Sprint website and all that has been posted here. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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Hi,
Please try all the suggestions here:
Regards,
Mark
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Mark,
Thanks for your response. Unfortunately, this thing will not let me install KPPP and KPPP logview from the menu. I get a message saying that is restricted by the vendor. Can I load these packages from the command line and how do i do that? I am new to Linux!
Thanks
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Hi,
Please do the following to install kppp:
Step 1: Open Terminal from "Applications-
Step 2: Run the following commands (type each then hit <enter>)
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install kppp
Step 3: Post results (cut/paste terminal output from each command) here
Regards,
Mark
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OK Mark, here it is!
paul@paul:~$ sudo aptitude update
[sudo] password for paul:
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Reading package lists... Done
paul@paul:~$
paul@paul:~$ sudo aptitude install kppp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
at-spi gnome-cards-data gnome-games-data guile-1.6-libs libbeagle1 libelfg0 libgail-
libggzmod4 libgnome-speech7 libguile-ltdl-1 libopal-2.2 libopenobex1 libpt-1.10.10 libpt-1.
libqthreads-12 libxevie1 obex-data-server python-brlapi python-pyatspi
The following NEW packages will be installed:
kppp
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 21 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 692kB of archives. After unpacking 51.4MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://
Fetched 692kB in 1s (456kB/s)
(Reading database ... 93101 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing python-pyatspi ...
Removing at-spi ...
Removing gnome-games-data ...
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#5 |
Hi,
So now that kppp seems to be installed, please try following this procedure:
http://
Regards,
Mark
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#6 |
Problem Cured!!
Thanks so much for your excellent help, Mark! I owe you.
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@Mark, thank you, I've added that to the Mini 9 wiki page at https:/