connecting modem to laptop- part 1

I purchased a Asus X-54 C laptop (with free DOS) from Chennai in 2012, it worked fine for almost a year and half then gone kaput… I had left it alone for the all this time (untill Jan 2015) then suddendly one day I thought why not try to resurrect it … like the mythical phoenix… so I asked one of my cousins to have a look at it.. he got  back to me saying the hard disk is gone , he arranged a second hand 250 Gb hard disk and returned the laptop to me in working condition…then came my problem .. I wanted to connect my laptop to my BSNL broadband (ADSL…well it means somewhat high speed internet over existing copper phone lines..) but my cousin had installed a trial versin of windows 7 and when I tried to connect the laptop to the modem by means of a ethernet cable .. I was dissapointed to watch it not being detected.. wheen I probed further to see the reason for that I was in for a rude shock… the version of windows didn’t  had any device drivers (specialised software) that would detect …ethernet or usb devices..so I decided to rummage through my old CD collection of chip & digit magazines and try find a bootable linux distro, I could only locate an ubuntu 10.10 live dvd so I took of to my  nearest railway station which had a book stall selling assorted magazines but I couldn’t fin them and after frantic searching for my old favorites on google I finally had another diassapointment  ,both magazines  I suspect are now discontinued in India,  atleast digit survives as an online technology portal) .

Anyway I installed ubuntu (which was installed only in the third attempt as in the previous attempts I tried to select the keyboard layout during installation and the installation was smooth only when I let the default installation procedure without any of tinkering on my part.)

Now fresh from the victory, I had in hand, I connected the ethernet cable but alas … the modem or connection was not detected….as I was in no mood to give up .. so ,I poked around and found usb cable which came along with the modem…and using it my laptop detected the connection and I was able access the modem settings upon entering “192.168.1.1” … I used screenshot software available in ubuntu to take screenshot grabs from my laptop, this I transferred to my desktop for editing in word using my HTC explorer A310e connected via a mini usb cable..rest of the camera shots taken by my HTC explorer. Next week I will try to connect my laptop to wi-fi router (Siemens SL2 141 )at my wife's place…

modem setting acessed after entering 192.168.1.1 in firefox web browser