Downloaded file, how to Install a ".run" for wireless internet

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I downloaded the file 'vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux-2.0.beta3-ALL-i386-installer.run' but whats the command string to run it? Help please.

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Ian Ace (iaculallad) said :
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On the terminal, execute the command below. Be sure that you're on the folder where the file resides when executing the command:

sudo ./vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux-2.0.beta3-ALL-i386-installer.run

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Soul-Sing (soulzing) said :
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1) if you have another way of getting the One online then open firefox and browse to the link I posted earlier.
2) download vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux-2.0.beta3-ALL-i386-installer.run. This should save it into your Downloads folder
(if you can't do this, then download the software on another machine and use something like a usb stick to copy the file over)
3) press alt+f2 to bring up the run program dialog box. Make sure nothing is in the text area, click the 'run in terminal' box and click the run button
4) in the text window that appears type the following -

cd Downloads (or where your download is) cd Desktop?
chmod 755 vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux-2.0.beta3-ALL-i386-installer.run
sudo ./vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux-2.0.beta3-ALL-i386-installer.run

5) Follow the installation instructions, then when it's finished type in vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux and press return (I'm sure the betavine guys could have come up with a shorter filename than that but never mind)
6) if it works you'll get asked for connection details (put web for the username and password, and internet for the apn) and then with a bit of luck it will connect
7) if it doesn't work, try typing sudo<space> before the filename (so it's 'sudo vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux')

After that, you just need to press alt+f2 and type the commands from either 5 or 7 into the run box next time you want to use it (I'll give you instructions on how to create a shortcut once you've managed to get it working)

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Ian Ace (iaculallad) said :
#3

"cd Downloads (or where your download is) cd Desktop?
chmod 755 vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux-2.0.beta3-ALL-i386-installer.run
sudo ./vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux-2.0.beta3-ALL-i386-installer.run"

No need to chmod it to 755 as it was downloaded on the users directory. Plainly, you could just set the files executable bit with:

sudo chmod +x vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux-2.0.beta3-ALL-i386-installer.run

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The Merovingian (its-the-merovingian) said :
#4

Thanks guys for all the help, difficult to do this stuff with no internet, but have a

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The Merovingian (its-the-merovingian) said :
#5

Sorry guys, lost the connection so it didn't send all of the input. Basically, I did as you said but got terminal output as follows:

ricci@Portable:~/Desktop$ sudo vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux
/opt/vmc/lib/python/site-packages/twisted/persisted/sob.py:13: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
  import os, md5, sys
/opt/vmc/lib/python/site-packages/twisted/persisted/sob.py:13: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
  import os, md5, sys
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-root/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/11-lcd-filter-lcddefault.conf", line 9: invalid constant used : lcddefault
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/53-monospace-lcd-filter.conf", line 17: invalid constant used : lcdlegacy

Thanks very much for taking the time to help, it is very much appreciated.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said :
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Tom (tom6) said :
#7

Hi ?

Have you been able to solve this problem yet or still struggling with it? If you are still struggling then please post as a new question here
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion
and at
http://www.linuxquestions.org
but please give us a link to your new questions

Thanks & regards from
Tom :)

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The Merovingian (its-the-merovingian) said :
#8

Thanks Tom, it didn't install properly, as above, so I abandoned it, and several other things as well. Just doing nothing with Ubuntu at the moment as everytime I try to use something new it can't do it, and 9.10 which I'm told solves some of the problems was a disaster, and made the machines I installed it on unuseable. Nobody offered any comment on the forums which was a serious bad, together with other lack of solutions has finished Linux for me for now. So much as I like the idea of Ubuntu as a windows alternative it still doesn't come near yet for ease of use and upgrades etc. Having said that, I have used other versions of Linux and so far Ubuntu is definitely the best, but just not there yet. Sorry.

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Tom (tom6) said :
#9

Hi

That is understandable & i am sorry to hear that we weren't able to offer you good answers fast enough. Often questions do slip through the net as we focus on ones we can answer most easily. Sorting Wireless is a particularly tricky problem.

I have looked at all the questions you asked in Launchpad and they are almost all marked as Solved? I guess that was by accident but it does explain why people didn't try to help solve questions.

Some hardware just wont work with some versions of linux without a lot of work & yet another distro might work easily on it. So it is usually best to try a LiveCd version first and move on to the LiveCd of the next distro fairly quickly if you don't get the result you want
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD

The distro that has the best hardware detection usually is Knoppix but that is designed to only be run as a LiveCd, not to be installed.

Once you can get LiveCd sessions working then there is a lot more you can do to sort problems either with linux or with Windows.

One of the unfortunate problems at the moment is that Windows is pre-installed on machines by teams of experts tweaking each machine to get it to work with Windows. Almost no-one ever has to install Windows on their machine. When trying Linux out the first thing that people have to do is install without having the experience of a team of experts. Somehow it usually works fairly easily but not always.

I was hoping that you could try a LiveCd of Ubuntu 10.04 before it gets officially released but that seems unlikely now
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/testing/lucid/beta1
Trying it as a LiveCd or as an extra dual/multi-boot would be ideal. Developers and everyone are keen to try to iron out any problems before 10.04 gets officially released so you might find faster & more effective answers to your bug reports which would make 10.04 work better on your system for you

Anyway, thanks for responding to my post in this forum thread.
Many regards & apologies from
Tom :)

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The Merovingian (its-the-merovingian) said :
#10

Hi Tom,
Kind of you to take the trouble, and sorry to be slow coming back, but life occurred, as it does. Yes a lot were solved, and indeed many of the answers permitted me to solve a lot of problems for other people, but in the end, XP is less grief, if less secure. The final problems which finished Ubuntu for me were the Vodafone Key, total lack of response to my questions about why 9 10 brought my system to it's knees and what to do about it, having to install XP for the speech recognition software, and more recently Grub not being able to find or boot the Ubuntu Partition.
So I'm back to XP only now, and my Dell Latitude D810 is fully functional again for the first time since I changed it to Ubuntu, which could not install the bluetooth or onboard intel wireless card, and the Vodafone key installed and worked immediately with XP. I also found I could not use Ubuntu in some hotels especially if their WiFi was managed by Spectrum, and this was a blow because I live in hotels Monday to Friday, so without either the option of Mobile Broadband or local WiFi I was stuffed, and could not work in the evenings.
I will undoubtedly try Ubuntu again and still run it on my home PC, as on that it has never been a problem, but as I'm not home most of the time the portable is most important. And, of course, the PC is no bother because it is not asked to do anything complicated, like run the Vodafone key, do speech recognition, or run alongside Windows.

But thanks to you, and everyone else for all the help, As you will have seen from the dates on my questions I have given it a good run and am sorry to have to go back to Microsoft.

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The Merovingian (its-the-merovingian) said :
#11

Sorry, forgot to mention, tried 10.04 as live CD, still no bluetooth, or on board WiFi, Nor Vodafone mobile broadband. And reinstalling that or 9.04 in the Ubuntu Partition still doesn't start it, Grub still says it can't find and boot Ubuntu.

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Tom (tom6) said :
#12

Hi

Yes, a catalogue of problems :( Usually Ubuntu works quite easily for most machines but inevitably there are some cases were it wont. Usually Fedora or openSUSE do work in those cases. However, wireless hardware manufacturers are determined to make things difficult for us. It was good to see you did give Ubuntu "a fair go", it seems like you did a lot more than that!

When first trying to move into linux-land it is better to install it as a dual-boot alongside Windows (or which-ever) because most of the toughest challenges are right at the start.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot
Even when installing Window their "Recovery Cd" is pre-configured with the specific drivers and tweaks required for the specific machine it is designed for and would probably fail on a different machine.

Being able to reboot into the familiar allows you time to slowly get things sorted and learn enough about the newer system to make that easier. Once you get past the initial hurdles Ubuntu does become much easier than Windows but the corporate world makes too much profit from Windows and will not easily give up the income streams from just keeping re-doing, repackaging and re-selling the same answers to the same problems over and over. I'm particularly thinking of anti-virus, anti-malware and general "security" here. They need to solve problems in ways that creates more problems and creates more work that companies can profit from further.

Wireless devices tend to have their Windows drivers stored on the device itself in the little storage space there. Linux developers have to reverse engineer those drivers before they can build up linux ones, then the user needs to "eject" the storage component of the wireless dongle before being able to use it! Not easy for first timers! If the manufacturers allowed access to data & specs about their devices then it would halve the amount of work required to get these things working. Complain to the manufacturers about their device not working in linux, perhaps ask them to reimburse you for the time and money spent on getting a working Windows back onto your machine!

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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Tom (tom6) said :
#13

Hi :)

Ok, we could try to have a look at this today. You say the home PC still has Ubuntu installed on it and that you might be at home this weekend? I take it that the home PC has a wired internet connection that works just fine?

If so then getting the wireless dongle working on the home PC would be a good step towards getting it working on the laptop (at some future point if that starts looking viable again). So, without plugging the dongle in, just using the wired connection for now, just boot-up the machine and go up to the top-taskbar and click on

System - Administration - Synaptic package manager

Please use either search tool to find "wvdial" and install it. While you are in Synaptic it's worth clicking on "Mark all updates" and then click "Apply" again.
Please let us know when "wvdial" has installed.
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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The Merovingian (its-the-merovingian) said :
#14

Hi Tom,
Slight problem, in that I'm working in England for a month, but home is France, computers at my office here are all windows, but I believe there is an Asus portable somewhere on Ubuntu. So I could get the file down on that perhaps, if I can find it. Are we talking about setting up the Vodaphone dongle here.
The other problem with mine is not being able to install On the ubuntu partition. This is something I have done several times on other machines when Ubuntu upgrades have caused problems, in order to return to the previous version. But this time no version works, they all seem to install faultlessly but grub cannot find the partition. If I can get over this and run the two on this machine, as I had planned, I have all the options.

Thanks very much for your interest and help, you are most kind.

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Tom (tom6) said :
#15

Hi :)

It might be better to wait until you get back home. If things can't install on Ubuntu the 2 mostly usual causes are
1. Not enough space for Ubuntu
2. Ubuntu installed inside Windows using the Wubi install
We can usually just increase the space given to Ubuntu or re-arrange the way it is laid out. For the Wubi we have a guide to help move it to it's own partition. A LiveCd and the single command

sudo fdisk -l

can show us which of those 2 or it might help us diagnose if it's something different.

If you are considering installing Ubuntu onto an Asus laptop or something smaller then please try the Ubuntu Netbook Remix because it has better drivers for laptops and such-like.
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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The Merovingian (its-the-merovingian) said :
#16

Ok Thats fine, but should say that the installation routine on the Dell wawas

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The Merovingian (its-the-merovingian) said :
#17

Ok Thats fine, but should say that the installation routine on the Dell was as follows:

deleted all partitions through Windows install
formatted the whole 250 gig drive to NTFS via Windows Install
Installed windows
normal install of 9.04 and partitioned drive allocating 60 gig to windows with the rest to Ubuntu and swap (This is something I have done countless times with all different versions of Ubuntu when working as a technician)
restarted routinely, went into Windows and let it set up its partition as usual
restarted tried to go into Ubuntu, but Grub couldn't find the partition
Reinstalled Ubuntu 10.04 on same partition
Grub still couldn't find the Partition
Reinstalled 8.04 same result but Windows worked consistently

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Tom (tom6) said :
#18

Hi

There have been a few problems with the 10.04's installers version of grub2 but that was fixed in the official release of 10.04. What i find strange is that grub from 8.04 didn't work either. With the grub (original flavour as in 8.04) we could just edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst to make sure it is pointing at the right partition. With grub2 simply re-installing

Is there something special about the hard-drive? Is it a raided drive? Solid-State Drive? Either usually work but sometimes have caused a few problems. Formatting should have dealt with any bad-blocks on the hard-drive obviously. I'm assuming the machine is not a Sony Playstation3 with the latest firmware upgrade for the bios.

I am beginning to wonder if the boot-loader has to be in the first 1024Mb (or whatever that limit was) of the hard-drive for some reason. Since it is usually only older mbords that have this type of restriction it seems unlikely. On a laptop putting a boot partition at the start is going to be slightly harder to arrange since there is usually a tiny partition at the front of the drive to act as a recovery partition. We can move it but that would probably involve resizing the partition immediately after it which usually takes ages.

Using the Windows partitioner for anything other than sorting Windows in Vista might be causing difficulties but presumably when you install Ubuntu you are installing to Ext3 or Ext4 partitions rather than installing onto Ntfs. Anyway Ntfs should be fine even though it is sub-optimal.

Hard-drive read/write speeds are faster near the front of the drive apparently. Windows needs to have a large partition because it's programs don't share common libraries. This means that each program needs its own copy of almost identical libraries that are used by lots of different programs. An error or vulnerability in one library might be the same in multiple different programs but each would have to sort it out separately. Quite apart from taking up extra ram space this means that Windows programs are very much larger than *nix equivalents. Since Windows can't split onto different partitions and can't handle 2nd drives this means that Windows needs 1 very large partition so that it can cope with having programs and games installed. To get around all this i tend to try to put small crucial partitions such as / and swap at the front of the drive, then Windows, then a shared /home and finally a fairly small partition to use as a sandbox for testing things before commiting them to my main stable installs. A fairly ideal layout (imo) is something like this for a machine with less than 2 Gb ram

sda1 Ext3, 5-8Gb for /
sda2 linux-swap = 2 x Ram
sda3 Ntfs, large Windows for it's C: "drive"
sda4 Extended Partition filling rest of drive & containing the following partitions
 . sda5 Ntfs, over 10Gb for linux's /home
 . sda6 Ext3, 10Gb for a sandbox area to try out other distros or to test newer releases of Ubuntu before upgrading to them. Sometimes it can be handy for trying installing things i am wary about such as graphics drivers or Windows programs in Wine.

To be honest i usually put the swap at the very front unless Ram is large enough that the machine doesn't need any virtual memory except for hibernate mode (in which case i put the swap at the very end of the drive). With the problems you have been having with boot-loaders i would put the entire / at the front of the drive rather than just creating a separate /boot partition there. Getting the entire / partition at the front of the drive stops linux suffering from being relegated to the slowest areas of the platter. Since / takes up so little space there the Windows partition still starts very close to the start of the drive so both win. If the drive does have a recovery partition then in this case i would seriously consider having the Windows partition inside the Extended Partition or put the swap inside the start of the Extended Partition and just suffer the slight decrease in performance in favour of avoiding having to reinstall Windows or do data-recovery style gymnastics to get Windows sorted.

From your last post i am fairly sure that you have been installing Ubuntu straight onto it's own partition on the physical hard-dive rather than installing Ubuntu inside Windows but it's still a little unclear. The only way to be sure is to get the "sudo fdisk -l" from a LiveCd on a machine you have done the usual install onto, but as i said it sounds as though you have been making the 'better' choice anyway.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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The Merovingian (its-the-merovingian) said :
#19

Tom, thanks for that, it's very kind of you to put so much effort into this. I'll try out your suggestions when I can and we'll see what happens.

Thanks again, will come back.

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The Merovingian (its-the-merovingian) said :
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Have got the machine back to normal on Windows, and got rid of the faulty grub with fixmbr. Used Gparted to give windows the whole drive again and then tried reinstalling Ubuntu, but a version a colleague had used successfully on his machine. Same result so did Fixmbr and Gparted again and Windows picked up OK so this time I installed Ubuntu inside Windows and it works fine. I did this because I'm beginning to think it's the machine/hard drive or hardware combination, thats the problem.

Inside windows all the machines hardware is properly installed, even the wireless and Bluetooth, which never worked with Ubuntu earlier versions or the latest Upgrade so all good there. The only down side is that I can't see the hard drive from Ubuntu, that is, files created under Windows. Do you know if it is possible to get this working? It's not simply a mount problem as with the side by side dual boot system, the drive just doesn't show at all.

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Tom (tom6) said :
#21

Hi :)

There is a special guide for the type of install you have done
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide
but i tend to avoid the wubi install because it seems a little wobbly balanced on Windows systems. However, if it works on your system then hopefully you can join the many people that keep using it like that for years, or atleast until you find a way to install a normal dual-boot aswell and sift things over.

I think your specific question about mounting the Windows drive needs to be asked as a separate question because i haven't a clue really
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion

Err, when you do post the new question please can you paste a link to it in this thread?

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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