Hai scritto alle 23.35.44:
"io ho dato sudo lshw less (cioe' sensa il trattino verticale, perche' non so come si fa')"

.... non dire le bugie, che ti si allunga il naso; il commando che hai dato è incluso nella tua risposta delle 20.42.50:
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Bastava comunque fare un Copia \ Incolla del comando sudo lshw | less dal mio post al tuo terminale..

Hai scritto:
"comunque per chi non avesse letto dal inizio, vorrei far notare che secondo me il problema e' l'installazione dei pacchetti,"
?? Ma la connessione ti funzionava all'inizio?? Ti potevi collegare ad Internet? I pacchetti non si installano se la connessione è assente o scadente.

La storia diventa assai confusa, troppo direi. Almeno per me.

- Per non lasciarti in mutande, ti propongo questo link, estratto da un ottimo forum, sperando comunque possa fare a caso tuo:
http://forum.aiutamici.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=46982

Bye.

ti posto quello che mi restituisce il comando sudo lshw | less . e devo confessare che ubuntu mi affascina, pero' quando guardo il pc con cui sto scrivendo penso , windows grazie di esistere :-). su' ubuntu per fare una semplice operazione bisogna studiare un ora.

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>-Vai nel Bios e controlla (alla voce Integrateds Peripherals) che la scheda Ethernet (sottovoce "Onboard Lan chip" o qualcosa di simile) sia su "Enabled".

sono andato nel bios non c'e' l'ho Integrateds Peripherals dato che la scheda di rete non e' integrata ma c'e' lo aggiunta io fisicamente quindi ne sono certo, nel bios ho solo Onboard Lan ed e' in ENABLED comunque io gli ho fatto fare un passaggio a vuoto, cioe' prima lo disabilitata riavviato e poi riabilitata, ho dato di nuovo il comando sudo lshw | less e me la vede di nuovo disabilitata eppure vedo l'estremita del cavo ethernet illuminata, qundi e' abilitata, forse dovrei cambiare scheda di rete, una che di sicuro funziona pero' su ubuntu 8.4 . comunque cosi per provare siccome ho anche ubuntu 10.4 masterizzato su un altro cd ( la 8.4 l'avevo masterizzata su un dvd a 2 x ) ed ho disponibile un altro pc piu' recente , ho provato la 10.4 sul pc recente in modalita soltanto di prova sensa installarlo, e funziona, e mi ha riconosciuto subito la rete da solo, al inizio viaggiava lentissimo, mi e' bastato installare da terminale i pacchetti ppp e poi andava come le schegge piu veloce di windows. questo lo fatto per vedere se' il modem funzionava bene con linux. purtroppo su quel pc non ho potuto fare la prova con la 8.4 dato che non me lo riconosce, quella versione e' troppo vecchia per quel pc.

Ciao jack66,io ho il tuo stesso ruter-modem e con ubuntu 10.10 non ho avuto prob, scusa una domanda (stupida forse) ma l'adattatore wifi c'èl'hai?
Dovrebbero avertelo dato in dotazione.
Ciao e scusa l'intomissione