Uganda Linux User Group

Before asking a technical question by e-mail, or in a newsgroup, or on a website chat board, do the following:

1. Try to find an answer by searching the archives of the forum you plan to post to.
2. Try to find an answer by searching the Web.
3. Try to find an answer by reading the manual.
4. Try to find an answer by reading a FAQ.

These are the steps to follow if you are to use the modem on Ubuntu 9.04.
1.       Switch on your machine and let it start up
2.       Connect the WARID modem to the machine
3.       Go to system on the menu bar
4.       Then select preferences and go to network connections and select it.
5.       You will be given various options, please select mobile broadband tab.
6.       Then select the ADD tab. And follow the new connection guide.
7.       Select Uganda from the country list and the operator as MTN(don’t worry this can change quickly).

If you are running a network of Ubuntu machines (more than 1), installing your own cache is a good idea. You can chain caches, so you can point your cache to the central Ugandan cache.

Here is a very simple tutorial to install apt-cacher:

sudo apt-get install apt-cacher
sudo pico /etc/apt-cacher/apt-cacher.conf

We need to point apt-cacher to the Ugandan cache, so change :

# Apt-cacher can pass all its requests to an external http proxy like
# Squid, which could be very useful if you are using an ISP that blocks

Mountbatten (with the help of Datanet) is running an Ubuntu and Debian caching server. The caching server holds all previously downloaded updates for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Debian.

Where is it?
Server: irc.pamoya.com
Port: 6667
Channel: #lug

Wait, what is IRC and how do I connect?
IRC is short for "Internet Relay Chat" and is a form of real-time Internet text-messaging or "chatting." IRC is great because it operates well over high-latency/slow connections and allows multiple people to communicate with each-other at the same time.