Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu showdown

2012-06-26 Thread Andres Muniz
- Mensaje original - On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:30:07 +0100 john j...@creationspacetech.org wrote: Hi All, I really believe that Ubuntu could do something better than the folks at both Mac and Microsoft. The new internet based economy is turning out to be very different to

[ubuntu-uk] Ethernet not working after board replacement

2012-06-26 Thread James Morrissey
Hi, I've just had some repairs done on my faulty Thinkpad x121e. From the report i got it seems that lenovo replaced the board, the keyboard the palmrest and updated the BIOS. Now however i seem to have a problem with the wired network (ethernet). Since the board has changed i think that i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ethernet not working after board replacement

2012-06-26 Thread Alan Lord
On 26/06/12 09:20, James Morrissey wrote: I was wondering if anyone here could give me some instructions on how to check for restrictions by MAC and how to check udev. Just delete (after looking at it) the file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and restart - it will be created

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ethernet not working after board replacement

2012-06-26 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 26 June 2012 09:20, James Morrissey morrissey.jam...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've just had some repairs done on my faulty Thinkpad x121e. From the report i got it seems that lenovo replaced the board, the keyboard the palmrest and updated the BIOS. Now however i seem to have a problem with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Microsoft Surface Release, Will there be something similar from Ubuntu?

2012-06-26 Thread kpb
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:25:30 +0100 Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: There is exactly that. On Reddit no less. http://www.reddit.com/r/ubuntuappshowdown/ Cheers, - -- Alan Pope OK, I actually created a log in c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ethernet not working after board replacement

2012-06-26 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-06-26 14:38, Mark Fraser wrote: On Jun 26, 2012 10:38 AM, James Morrissey morrissey.jam...@gmail.com mailto:morrissey.jam...@gmail.com wrote: Great, Thanks for the help. Deleting /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and restarting seemed to do the trick. Thanks again.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu showdown

2012-06-26 Thread Avi Greenbury
Andres Muniz wrote: Since the subject came up. If i was using oneric (or older) and i wanted to update quickly to the latest and greatest... Is there a set a source approach or would compiling it be the only opton? I can't see where it came up, but are you looking at upgrading the whole