Orange Broadband
How do I get my netbook with linux os to connect to my orange livebox broadband service. Orange will not support linux and offer no help. Has anyone else had this problem and possible resolved it?
>orange livebox broadband service
You might have to explain what this is to non-orange folk ... is it a home broadband package? Is it wired or WiFi .. and are you using a modem(USB) or router?
Previously Gareth Bult wrote:
>orange livebox broadband service
You might have to explain what this is to non-orange folk ... is it a home broadband package? Is it wired or WiFi .. and are you using a modem(USB) or router?
My Orange internet connection is wireless and is a home broadband package. My Windows PC does not have a wireless network car so is wired to the Livebox (wireless transmitter) but various laptops we have are connected wirelessly. I recently acquired a EEE PC netbook which had another owner. It has a wireless network card in it and a number of wireless network connections are in evidence so I assume that the previous owner has had it working on the interent wirelessly. I have gone through the process of creating a connection using my orange wireless livebox and although the netbook is receiving a brilliant signal but will not connect. When it fails I get an error message at the end which reads:
- No DHCP offers received
- No working leases in persistent database - sleeping
- run-parts --verbose/etc/network/if -up.d
Does any of this make any sense to anyone. Apparently, Orange only support Windows and Mac systems so I can get no help from them, except the lady on the phone said to double check the WEP/WPA setting, which I have done and the setting seems to be WPA and it appears to be correct.
Thank you for any support you can offer.
Pat Shelock
Mmm.. sounds like an incompatibility between either the eeePC hardware and the Orange router, or the version of Linux you have and the Orange router. It should "just work" and prompt you for a password / WEP key if required.
Unfortunately / fortunately wifi on Linux desktop hasn't been all that well "automated" until fairly recently, so getting the very latest Linux distro may well make all the difference.
Ubuntu 9.10 !!
Previously Gareth Bult wrote:
Mmm.. sounds like an incompatibility between either the eeePC hardware and the Orange router, or the version of Linux you have and the Orange router. It should "just work" and prompt you for a password / WEP key if required.
Unfortunately / fortunately wifi on Linux desktop hasn't been all that well "automated" until fairly recently, so getting the very latest Linux distro may well make all the difference.
Ubuntu 9.10 !!
I am not an expert so please tell me how do I upgrade to this Ubuntu 9.10 if I cannot connect to the internet and I'm working with a netbook, which has no floppy or CD drive?
Hardware Compatibility
