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Help steps may be help to the users of bsnl wireless phones to connect to the web. Please see the 'Note' it step 6 before starting... 1. Find the product and vendor ids.( You may need to become root). $ lsusb 2. Now load the driver. $ sudo /sbin/modprobe usbserial vendor=0× VVVV product=0× PPPP Where VVVV is the vendor id and PPPP is the product id of your phone. Note: If an error like "usbserial not found" shows up in ubuntu jaunty then please skip this step and do what is said at http://blog.dipinkrishna.info/2009/07/usbserial-not-found-in-ubuntu-jaunty.html and then continue the steps below. 3. Now load the ppp driver $ sudo /sbin/modprobe ppp_generic 4. Check dmesg output $ sudo dmesg I got it as [ 227.271459] /build/buildd/linux-2.6.24/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for generic [ 227.271485] usbserial_generic 2-1:1.0: generic converter detected [ 227.271616] usb 2-1: generic converter now attached to ttyUSB0 [ 227.27...

Learn how to limit the download speed of the APT package manager in Kubuntu, Ubuntu or any Debian-based Linux system. Do you share your ADSL connection to your neighbors? Your broadband connection is shared by several computers on a small network or LAN? If so, it is likely that everyone will complain that the internet is very slow when doing a system update in broad daylight as apt-get will occupy the entire bandwidth of your Internet connection. To avoid this problem and have to do updates during the night, with a few lines in a text file you can limit the bandwidth consumed by apt-get and not saturate the Internet connection. For Kubuntu, Ubuntu and company Just as root, you must create a text file in the folder: $ vi /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ limitlevel The text file can have any name. This example 'limitlevel'. This file should contain the following lines of text: Acquire { http { Dl-Limit "100"; } } The number 100 can be changed to your liking and represents...