On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 22:18 -0400, Marty wrote: [...snip...] > > If in the future I decide to use a spinoff distribution, it's valuable to know > that I can still get support from Debian users. Of course, this would be > done only after seeking support from uses of the spinoff distro, as the OP in > this thread did.
Okay, he is trying to get support for an older version of Ubuntu. Dapper is not the current version of Ubuntu. Init system drives the driver initialization. Drivers not properly being loaded is exactly in the init system. I can't seem to find any references to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on any ubuntu.com, including lists.ubuntu.com or or ubuntuforums.org Original message say he searched and found nothing. To quote: I have searched ubuntu forums to no avail. My network connection has slowed down considerably since I installed Ubuntu Dapper (6.06.1 LTS) I have disabled ipv6 in /etc/aliases and Firefox, still slow by about 50%. What does that tell you? No he never asked the questions. I find no references to his e-mail address on lists.u.c or any "*hmeda" user or any signatures in ubuntuforums. Not to mention I've found several threads that address this specific issue. I don't think he has good faith when telling us he looked. I think this comes down to the fact that he is a bad question asker and not even in the proper venue. Doesn't know how to search and I believe his real problem comes down to DNS resolution issues or /var issues or both. So, AFAIC, we have been duped and he garners nothing more than a "Hey install Edgy, until then don't come back" pretty soone if he waits long enough, it'll be a "Hey install Fiesty, until then don't come back" His excuse is "3 years of security support". Big deal, Woody had nearly 4.5 years of security support. The LTS releases from Ubuntu are supported by Ubuntu, not Debian. I am not at all ready to support some thing foreign to Debian for 3 years. Unless he pays cash on the barrel head. Then I will fix the problem. And last but far from least, Ubuntu has a significantly different init system than Debian right now. PLUS they install zeroconf by default and causes headaches every where. One other thing, *IF* he changed /var to a separate filesystem after the install, there are some significant problems that will occur. Like; a network interface not coming up properly, or a DNS resolution issue to name a couple. These come back to the divergence of Ubuntu from Debian as the Debian helpers don't know about the /var/run and /var/lock issues. I've dealt with this problem numerous times with Ubuntu Dapper. I know more about Ubuntu Dapper and Edgy than I'd like to admit, but still he is not asking in the right venue. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self. One day the house smells of fresh bread, the next of smoke and blood. One day you faint because the gardener cuts his finger off, within a week you're climbing over corpses of children bombed in a subway. What hope can there be if that is so? I tried to die near the end of the war. The same dream returned each night until I dared not to go to sleep and grew quite ill. I dreamed I had a child, and even in the dream I saw it was my life, and it was an idiot, and I ran away. But it always crept onto my lap again, clutched at my clothes. Until I thought, if I could kiss it, whatever in it was my own, perhaps I could sleep. And I bent to its broken face, and it was horrible...but I kissed it. I think one must finally take one's life in one's arms. Arthur Miller from the play After the Fall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]