JT I stand advised re your first para.

Currently connected to my main machine via usb is an epson 680 printer, a wireless optical mouse, and of course the bt wireless home hub . Also on occasion I plug in and use Integral flash drive memory sticks. All of these are working well in windows and linux, with the exception that is, of the home hub in linux.

Eric

Eric, As an asside, please post replys to main@lists.alug.org.uk because that way other people can step in with advice...

Ok, what we need to work out is whether or not your USB is actually working. Now this might be simple as turning it on - but are you aware of any other USB devices working ok in linux (for example, your USB keyboard or USB mouse or USB printer or anything (any one of these working suggests that USB hotplug stuff will be enabled and thats all ok)..

If thats all ok, then it might be as simple as configuring it as a USB network card, to which I would have to pass you over to someone else on the list for that...

As for wireless network cards (usb ones) not all of them are erm "compatible" with linux or are very hard to configure where some are very much so (due to openness of hardware spec and manufacturers niceness towards open source community) so someone on the list can suggest good ones that will work in Linux and Windows.

JT

Currently I am connected via usb, in due course I'm contemplating buying a usb wireless dongle for this (my main pc) and also one for my other pc also running windows.

As I said, I'm an utter newbie to linux; - what is this gui-wireless setup stuff?

Thanks Eric

James Taylor wrote:

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Can you please provide more information. Are you using the hub wirelessly or is it on an eithernet connection or a usb connection?

If its wireless, does your linux recognise the computers wireless card [is the wirless carrd usb? can you see other usb devices?]

What do your default gui-wireless setup things tell you?

Thanks JT

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Help please. I have a British Telecom broadband wireless bt home hub, - it works well with windows, but I am dual booting with Ubuntu/Kubuntu and neither is recognising this modem, and thus can't get online. Can anyone tell me in very simple words how to do this - I am an absolute newbie to linux. Many thanks. Eric