Tutorials on Ubuntu Linux?

[Young]

Hi there,

Does anyone know any links for Ubuntu Linux Tutorial? Thanx for your help.

Young

[Vergil83]

I found the documentation on Ubuntu's website pretty good....... is there a specfic problem you are having

[bryansmith]

The Ubuntu Guide (http://ubuntuguide.org/) is an excellent guide and will help you get quite a bit setup. It is, though, for setting things up after install. If you are having problems with the install, you would be best to check the Ubuntu website.

Hope that helps,
Bryan

[Young]

For those who replied to my query:

I am terribly sorry that I haven't replied quickly enough. Thank you
all. I actually wanted to set up my wireless network for my laptop.
Like I have said, I am using Acer Travelmate 290 with both Windows
XP and Linux Kernel 4.10 running on my laptop. Unfortunately, being
a linux Newbie, I don't have any idea how to approach this matter. If
anyone could provide me with some tips, I would be more than happy
to know. Thank you in advance.

Sincerely,

Young

[bryansmith]

I hope this is what you are looking for: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/WiFiHowto.

Hope that helps,
Bryan

[Young]

Hi there,

Thank you for your replies again. I appreciate it.

I found a tutorial on adding extra repositories and installing DHCP server for automatic IP address assignment. First of all, I tried to modify the file sources.list, but somehow I can't save the modified file. A warning window with message 'cannot save the file 'filename'. I also tried to install dhcp3-server, and the system wouldn't even install the server. I have no clue what to do now. Once again, thank you for your replies.

Young

[bryansmith]

When trying to change the sources.list file, did you do it as root? For example:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

If you didn't do it as root (sudo), you wouldn't be able to save the file.

Hope that helps,
Bryan

[Young]

Hello again,


I went to system settings->networking and went through some configuatrion procedures. After the procedure, I typed in iwconfig on the terminal, and got the following results:

lo no wireless extensions

eth0 no wireless extensions

eth1 unassociated ESSID: "young"
Mode:Managed Channel =0 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate = 0kb/s Tx-Power = 20dBm
RTS thr: off Fragment thr: off
Encryption key: off
Power Management off

sit no wireless extensions

Am I missing something here? I made sure that the network would use DHCP to automatically configure the IP address. I also tried installing the dhcp3-server using apt-get (or aptitude) commands, but they both showed the same result saying that the dhcp3-server could not be found. I am right now trying everything to get the network up and working. Thank you very much for your help so far, almost forgot to mention.

Sincerely,

Young

[bryansmith]

Hi Young,

I don't have any experience with wireless in Linux (no need to set it up on my laptop) but it looks like it doesn't recognize your wireless card. I could be wrong but that is what it looks like from here.

Bryan

[Young]

Hello Bryan,

Thank you again for your reply. I don't use wireless card (using
wireless router instead), but nontheless, I do have a same opinion as
you do. Somehow, the whole wireless chip is not being recognized.
Anyhow, thank you very much for your help.


Cheers,
Young