This is for most BSNL users who have been given a Huawei MT800 modem and want to configure a wireless router to work with it.

1) Firstly make sure your net is working fine when connected to MT800 directly from the computer
2) Now open http://192.168.1.1/ in your favourite browser. We will change its IP as LinkSys router also uses 192.168.1.1 as its IP
  a) Enter your username (normally 'admin') and password (default 'admin')
  b) Click on 'Lan Settings' change IP from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.xxx(you can use any number you want(2-255) and remember the IP you have entered) Lets assume 192.168.1.90 for now
  c) After you save the settings your browser might correctly redirect to your new IP if not enter it in the address bar and Save and Reboot your Router.
  d) After your router reboots again log into the router(entering the changed IP in your browser)
  f) You have to change your router to behave like a ADSL modem... Follow the following instructions:

1. Fire up your browser, and point it at 192.168.1.90 (or ur Router's IP)
   

    

2. You will be promoted for user ID and password - unless you have changed something before, this would be "admin" and "admin", respectively.

    

3. Next you get a screen full of stuff, with a menu on the left - click on "WAN Setting".

    

4. On the next screen, change "WAN Type" from "PPP" to "RFC2684Bridged".

    

5. Now make sure that "Connection Type" is set to "Pure Bridged".

    

6. Click "Apply", then save and restart (which can also be done under "System Setting menu on the left).

    

7. Allow the device to restart.

  g) Congrats your Router is now a dumb ADSL Modem, this is what you need to get your Wireless router working.

3) Load the CD given with the LinkSys router.  Follow the instructions and make the connections as shown

4) When given an option about the type of connection choose PPPoE and enter the ISP given username and password(which you had entered to the MT800 router earlier)

5) Now you can go ahead and configure the wireless...

One of problems I constantly face when ever I reinstall skype or Linux is that the mike stops working.  I was browsing thru Skype.com and realized they have a brilliant tutorial to get your mike working flawlessly on your Unix box.

Use these tutorial to configure your mike:

http://www.skype.com/help/guides/soundsetup_linux.html
http://forum.skype.com/index.php?s=fe1943c13878bcef52c03fbcfbaffbaa&showtopic=66544

Plus Skype has forum for just Linux users...

http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showforum=18

Hope this helps you Linux-Skype fans

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A few days back the journal of my Ext3 partition(/home on a Kubuntu) system got corrupted and required a fsck to correct it.  fsck resulted in a whole host of errors and ended up moving my entire /home folder to 'found+lost' folder.  If this was bad it went on to rename all files in the toplevel with thier respective inode numbers.

So suddenly I had no boot up and was basically screwed... Well not exactly, here is how I lost my home drive, found it and recovered it :)...

Firstly I booted into single user mode in kUbuntu...
How to boot to single user mode

Then created an user using
$adduser <username>

and give the user Sudo permission coz you will be accessing other user's data.

Now reboot and log in using the new username.  Now comes the paining task of reading the directories for recognizable data.  Intrestingly if you have given unique dir icons its very easy to identify the directories.  Just copy them back to the right place and make sure you rename them.

Search for the .kde dir(required for your settings ect) and .mozilla and .mozilla-thunderbird(or).thunderbird to get back your messages in thunderbird and settings in firefox.  Try to recover as many '.' files and dir as possible. Dont copy the .xsession-errors file as it will be recreated. The other important files to pick up are:

.bash_history
.bash_logout
.bash_profile
.bashrc
.ICEauthority
.Xauthority

(you can pick the .ICEauthority and .Xauthority from the new user you created)

Now give the earlier user permission to access the files. ($ chmod a+rwx -R .(a-zA-Z)* )should do the trick.

Now logoff and log back using your old user id... If every step was done correctly you must hv recovered enough to resume your work or to recover the remaining data you require :)

In future keep a copy of the '.' files and your documents in a server just incase Ext3 has one of those days again...