Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread LeeGroups
I also had similar problems. Disabled IPv6 in Firefox. It's very bad that this bug is present so close to release. I hope that this is sorted before Thursday. Personally I have found Karmic to be pretty much unusable on both machines I tested it on. :-( On the other hand, I've

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Matt Daubney
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:13:52 +, Chris Rowson christopherrow...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying out karmic, and the networking seems to be broken on both my Lenovo N500 laptop and VMWare Fusion virtual machine atop of OS X Snow Leopard. It claims to be connected, and I can log into my

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Sean Miller
I will only install Karmic again if it promises me it won't tell me my hard drive is dying. Jaunty has never done, and if it is dying I'd honestly rather not know. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Matt Daubney
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:32:49 +, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: I will only install Karmic again if it promises me it won't tell me my hard drive is dying. Jaunty has never done, and if it is dying I'd honestly rather not know. Sean That's one thing I'd definatley want to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread John Levin
On 27/10/2009 08:47, LeeGroups wrote: I also had similar problems. Disabled IPv6 in Firefox. It's very bad that this bug is present so close to release. I hope that this is sorted before Thursday. Personally I have found Karmic to be pretty much unusable on both machines I tested it on.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Nick
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 09:29 +, Matt Daubney wrote: On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:13:52 +, Chris Rowson christopherrow...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying out karmic, and the networking seems to be broken on both my Lenovo N500 laptop and VMWare Fusion virtual machine atop of OS X Snow

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread etali
John Levin wrote: On 27/10/2009 08:47, LeeGroups wrote: I've now gone back to Jaunty. This is the first time that any Ubuntu version hasn't got online out of the box for me. Very disappointing. John I've only just subscribed to this list. How long ago did you download your

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Johnathon Tinsley
etali wrote: John Levin wrote: On 27/10/2009 08:47, LeeGroups wrote: I've now gone back to Jaunty. This is the first time that any Ubuntu version hasn't got online out of the box for me. Very disappointing. John I've only just subscribed to this list. How long ago did you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Chris Rowson
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:13:52 +, Chris Rowson christopherrow...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying out karmic, and the networking seems to be broken on both my Lenovo N500 laptop and VMWare Fusion virtual machine atop of OS X Snow Leopard. It claims to be connected, and I can log

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Rob Beard
Matt Daubney wrote: I've been running Karmic since about Alpha 5 and had very few problems. The RC (on the 3 machines I'm running anyway) seems to be quite stable. The performance improvements are quite startling, especially the boot time on my laptop. If you have found some problems, make

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Rob Beard
Sean Miller wrote: I will only install Karmic again if it promises me it won't tell me my hard drive is dying. Jaunty has never done, and if it is dying I'd honestly rather not know. Sean Surely it's good to know so you can make sure you have up to date backups. I've just had a 1TB

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/10/27 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk: One thing I was wondering though, when I login, Firefox pops up with an Ubuntu One/Launchpad login page.  Is there any way of stopping this popping up every time? Rob You could remove Ubuntu One from the list of Startup Applications, or remove

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Daniel Drummond
Rob Beard wrote: Sean Miller wrote: I will only install Karmic again if it promises me it won't tell me my hard drive is dying. Jaunty has never done, and if it is dying I'd honestly rather not know. Sean Surely it's good to know so you can make sure you have up to date

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Rob Beard
Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/10/27 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk: One thing I was wondering though, when I login, Firefox pops up with an Ubuntu One/Launchpad login page. Is there any way of stopping this popping up every time? Rob You could remove Ubuntu One from the list of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread John Levin
On 27/10/2009 10:20, etali wrote: John Levin wrote: On 27/10/2009 08:47, LeeGroups wrote: I've now gone back to Jaunty. This is the first time that any Ubuntu version hasn't got online out of the box for me. Very disappointing. John I've only just subscribed to this list. How long

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread John Levin
On 27/10/2009 12:31, Daniel Drummond wrote: This is due to the inclusion of drive monitoring tools in Karmic. They weren't present in Jaunty, which is why you only found out when you installed Karmic. I've had a warning up about one of my drives, but it is pretty much brand new, and hasn't

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Alan Pope
2009/10/27 Daniel Drummond dmdrummo...@gmail.com: This is due to the inclusion of drive monitoring tools in Karmic.  They weren't present in Jaunty, which is why you only found out when you installed Karmic.  I've had a warning up about one of my drives, but it is pretty much brand new, and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Alan Pope
2009/10/27 John Levin technola...@gmail.com: What tools are these? And are they available for Jaunty, if not installed by default? OS X has something similar (the name escapes me atm) which has saved my proverbial bacon before. gnome-disk-utility. I don't believe it's in Jaunty, only karmic

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Alan Pope
2009/10/27 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk: I've already signed up for an account, I just can't be bothered to enter my login details every time I login.  I'd have thought it would just remember the details in the application itself (like how Network Manager remembers my wireless network key).

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-26 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/10/26 John Levin technola...@gmail.com: Hi, I'm trying out karmic, and the networking seems to be broken on both my Lenovo N500 laptop and VMWare Fusion virtual machine atop of OS X Snow Leopard. It claims to be connected, and I can log into my router, but cannot get anything through

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-26 Thread John Levin
On 26/10/2009 20:54, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/10/26 John Levintechnola...@gmail.com: Hi, I'm trying out karmic, and the networking seems to be broken on both my Lenovo N500 laptop and VMWare Fusion virtual machine atop of OS X Snow Leopard. It claims to be connected, and I can log

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-26 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi, I'm trying out karmic, and the networking seems to be broken on both my Lenovo N500 laptop and VMWare Fusion virtual machine atop of OS X Snow Leopard. It claims to be connected, and I can log into my router, but cannot get anything through firefox, thunderbird, synaptic etc. The