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Old 06-16-2008   #1 (permalink)
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I am on Ubuntu 8.04 and I have just managed to connect my laptop to the internet using my Nokia 6110 Navigator with wvdial.

My problem is I wanted to be able to use Synaptic manager to download packages as well but I can't. On the Synaptic Package Manager I went to Settings -> Preference -> Network, and I selected "Direct Connection to the Internet".

My question is, how do I set up my Synaptic Package Manager to connect to the internet when I am using my mobile phone as a modem?
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What the output of this
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sudo apt-get update
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What the output of this
Code:
sudo apt-get update
I am sorry Casper for not responding in time because I got busy after posting the thread and now I am at work. So I am going to have to respond to you in about 8hrs time because I want to be in front of my laptop when I do.

I'll try that. But I think the last I tried to do a "sudo wget http://....." it just kept on trying to connect and reconnect and said something like "connection to the server could not be resolved", I am not really sure. But I'll paste the output once I get to run "apt-get update"
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What the output of this
Code:
sudo apt-get update
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thabom@thabom-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for thabom: 
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080423) hardy Release.gpg
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080423) hardy/main Translation-en_ZA                                                
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080423) hardy/restricted Translation-en_ZA                                          
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080423) hardy Release                                                                
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080423) hardy/main Packages                                                          
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080423) hardy/restricted Packages                                                    
Err cdrom://Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080423) hardy/main Packages                                                          
  Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
Err cdrom://Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080423) hardy/restricted Packages                                                    
  Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
Err http://za.archive.ubuntu.com hardy Release.gpg                                                                                           
  Could not connect to 10.135.220.74:3128 (10.135.220.74), connection timed out
Err http://za.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Translation-en_ZA                                                                                
  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:
Err http://za.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Translation-en_ZA                                                                          
  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:
Err http://za.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Translation-en_ZA                                                                            
  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:
Err http://za.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Translation-en_ZA                                                                          
  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:
Err http://za.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates Release.gpg                                                                                   
  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:
Err http://za.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Translation-en_ZA                                                                        
  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:
Err http://za.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Translation-en_ZA                                                                  
  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:
Err http://za.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Translation-en_ZA                                                                    
  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:
Err http://za.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Translation-en_ZA                                                                  
  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:
Err http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security Release.gpg                                                                                    
  Could not connect to 10.135.220.74:3128 (10.135.220.74), connection timed out
Err http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Translation-en_ZA                           
  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:
Err http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Translation-en_ZA                     
  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:
Err http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Translation-en_ZA                       
  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:
Err http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Translation-en_ZA                     
  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:
Err http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy Release.gpg                                            
  Could not connect to 10.135.220.74:3128 (10.135.220.74), connection timed out
Err http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/free Translation-en_ZA                                 
  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:
Err http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/non-free Translation-en_ZA                             
  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:
Reading package lists... Done                                                                  
W: Failed to fetch http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/Release.gpg  Could not connect to 10.135.220.74:3128 (10.135.220.74), connection timed out

W: Failed to fetch http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/main/i18n/Translation-en_ZA.bz2  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:

W: Failed to fetch http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/restricted/i18n/Translation-en_ZA.bz2  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:

W: Failed to fetch http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/universe/i18n/Translation-en_ZA.bz2  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:

W: Failed to fetch http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/multiverse/i18n/Translation-en_ZA.bz2  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:

W: Failed to fetch http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/Release.gpg  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:

W: Failed to fetch http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/main/i18n/Translation-en_ZA.bz2  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:

W: Failed to fetch http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/restricted/i18n/Translation-en_ZA.bz2  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:

W: Failed to fetch http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/universe/i18n/Translation-en_ZA.bz2  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:

W: Failed to fetch http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/multiverse/i18n/Translation-en_ZA.bz2  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-security/Release.gpg  Could not connect to 10.135.220.74:3128 (10.135.220.74), connection timed out

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-security/main/i18n/Translation-en_ZA.bz2  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-security/restricted/i18n/Translation-en_ZA.bz2  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-security/universe/i18n/Translation-en_ZA.bz2  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-security/multiverse/i18n/Translation-en_ZA.bz2  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/hardy/Release.gpg  Could not connect to 10.135.220.74:3128 (10.135.220.74), connection timed out

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/hardy/free/i18n/Translation-en_ZA.bz2  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/hardy/non-free/i18n/Translation-en_ZA.bz2  Unable to connect to 10.135.220.74 3128:

W: Failed to fetch cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080423)]/dists/hardy/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz  Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs

W: Failed to fetch cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080423)]/dists/hardy/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz  Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs

W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
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What the output of this
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I got it.

I edited the file /etc/apt/apt.conf and changed Acquire::http::Proxy "http://10.135.220.74:3182" to Acquire::http::Proxy "false"
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