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Lead Head:
usually the amount of ram linux uses is not a problem, on my athlon 650 box, fc4 uses around 350MB of the systems total 448, without any performence loss.

cymon:
Linux will use most of the RAM, it caches it to try and avoid disk thrashing.

Dark_Me:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---It has both usb and Ethernet sockets on the back, and the good news is my PC does have an Ethernet port. Currently it's set up on XP with the usb, should I change it to Ethernet then? This would be inconvenient as I'd need to buy a cable but I wouldn't mind if it'd work.

If I remember rightly when I set up the account through Windows I had to go through a wizard that prompted me for my ISP's IP and my username and password, does a similar thing exist in Ubuntu?
--- End quote ---
That sounds very simalar to my modem/router. As Worker said hook up the ethernet and it should work just fine. Mine is a Netcomm so that might change things but for me with Ubuntu there where no problems with it. It sounds as though the problem is that it's connected via USB. There is no wizard Ubuntu should do all the work for you.

Aloone_Jonez:

--- Quote from: Lead Head ---usually the amount of ram linux uses is not a problem, on my athlon 650 box, fc4 uses around 350MB of the systems total 448, without any performence loss.
--- End quote ---


--- Quote from: cymon ---Linux will use most of the RAM, it caches it to try and avoid disk thrashing.
--- End quote ---

I'm aware of this, I was refering to the amount of memory allocated for data and code.

Surely I can disable some of these services:


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top - 11:48:32 up 10 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.29, 0.21, 0.14
Tasks:  69 total,   3 running,  66 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  2.4% us,  0.4% sy,  0.0% ni, 97.1% id,  0.0% wa,  0.1% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:    248876k total,   200056k used,    48820k free,     9784k buffers
Swap:   457812k total,        0k used,   457812k free,    97940k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 6197 root      15   0 27288  14m 6196 S  1.8  5.8   0:39.87 Xorg
 7389 alun      16   0 38768  14m 9716 R  0.6  6.1   0:13.34 gnome-terminal
 7236 alun      16   0 12916 7160 5700 R  0.2  2.9   0:03.33 metacity
 6008 root      16   0 10664 2972 2404 S  0.1  1.2   0:00.06 gdm
    1 root      16   0  1552  508  444 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.55 init
    2 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
    3 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 events/0
    4 root       8 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.02 khelper
   22 root      15 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid
   95 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.03 kblockd/0
  133 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush
  134 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush
  136 root      14 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/0
  135 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kswapd0
  723 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kseriod
 1093 root      16   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.04 kjournald
 1121 root       5 -10  1532  356  288 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.09 udevd
 3485 root      19   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 shpchpd_event
 3695 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.47 khubd
 5948 syslog    16   0  1740  704  584 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.01 syslogd
 5963 root      16   0  1552  380  316 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.01 dd
 5965 klog      16   0  2416 1468  436 S  0.0  0.6   0:00.08 klogd
 5992 root      16   0 10124 2376 1956 S  0.0  1.0   0:00.00 gdm
 6007 cupsys    16   0  5568 2540 1172 S  0.0  1.0   0:00.31 cupsd
 6561 root      18   0  1680  788  528 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.00 acpid
 6623 messageb  16   0  2120 1028  864 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.04 dbus-daemon-1
 6635 hal       16   0  6860 5364 1592 S  0.0  2.2   0:00.94 hald
 6648 root      18   0  1544  432  376 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.00 inetd
 6779 root      16   0  2988 1132  956 S  0.0  0.5   0:00.00 master
 6794 postfix   16   0  3000 1068  900 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.00 pickup
 6795 postfix   16   0  3032 1100  920 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.00 qmgr
 6966 daemon    19   0  1728  608  524 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.00 atd
 6977 root      16   0  1784  816  676 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.00 cron
 6999 root      16   0  1548  472  408 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.00 getty
 7000 root      16   0  1548  472  408 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.00 getty
 7001 root      16   0  1548  472  408 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.00 getty
 7002 root      16   0  1548  472  408 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.00 getty
 7003 root      16   0  1548  472  408 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.00 getty
 7004 root      16   0  1548  472  408 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.00 getty
 7101 alun      15   0 17440 9080 7048 S  0.0  3.6   0:00.69 x-session-manag
 7146 alun      16   0  2992  892  708 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.00 ssh-agent
 7149 alun      16   0  2552  716  604 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.00 dbus-launch
 7150 alun      19   0  2016  736  644 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.00 dbus-daemon-1
 7152 alun      16   0 11936 9284 1760 S  0.0  3.7   0:01.39 gconfd-2
 7193 alun      19   0  2272  984  800 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.00 gnome-keyring-d
 7195 alun      15   0  5324 4028  480 S  0.0  1.6   0:00.18 esd
 7197 alun      15   0  6344 2844 2096 S  0.0  1.1   0:00.21 bonobo-activati
 7199 alun      15   0 19136 8636 6492 S  0.0  3.5   0:01.24 gnome-settings-
 7202 alun      16   0  2384 1184  856 S  0.0  0.5   0:00.11 gam_server


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--- Quote from: Dark_Me ---That sounds very simalar to my modem/router. As Worker said hook up the ethernet and it should work just fine. Mine is a Netcomm so that might change things but for me with Ubuntu there where no problems with it. It sounds as though the problem is that it's connected via USB. There is no wizard Ubuntu should do all the work for you.
--- End quote ---


Alright I'll buy a cable.

What about my user name and password for the ISP?

Dark_Me:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Alright I'll buy a cable.

What about my user name and password for the ISP?
--- End quote ---
You shouldn't need to play around with Ubuntu if all goes well. If you're luckey. Just buy the cable first and see what happens.

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