On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Rowan rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
I don't understand instruction 2. Is it one long line? What is the
doing there, and is it single spaced in between the two long strings? Or
did it creep in when the email was transmitted?
sed 's/blacklist
2009/3/2 Rowan rowan.berke...@googlemail.com:
Tell me, do you think there is any good reason, in anybody's minds but
the LinuxCertified engineers, to use a non default driver at all? Is the
instability in the r8169 driver a matter of common knowledge, or just
something they dreamed up to make
Morning,
2009/3/2 Rowan rowan.berke...@googlemail.com:
So you think it's worth using the non-default driver.
I think it's worth using whatever driver works :)
That means that I
must switch off auto-updates, after reinstalling the non-default driver,
No, it doesn't as I understand it. They
Just a couple of after-thoughts, Al:
One, the thing already installed some of the auto-updates, then got
stuck, because it had disabled the interface and couldn't download the
rest, so I shall have to tell it to stop complaining about this fact
until I am sorted.
Two, in fact, it appears the
Well, it's true one has to confirm the install by clicking an OK button,
before the auto-updater starts installing anything at all, so I guess it
follows that merely going online and downloading updates is harmless. I
did, unfortunately, click OK to install on the first occasion, being an
2009/3/2 Rowan rowan.berke...@googlemail.com:
One, the thing already installed some of the auto-updates, then got
stuck, because it had disabled the interface and couldn't download the
rest, so I shall have to tell it to stop complaining about this fact
until I am sorted.
Yes, the
The machine itself is a Compal JHL 90 (Korean, not Japanese, my bad).
Gorgeous screen to it. The Compal manual is online in various places. I
would be very grateful if anyone could tell me whether this machine
really has bleeding edge chipsets.
Alan Pope wrote:
2009/3/2 Rowan
Sean, is make clean modules an instruction you type in? I assumed it
was an instruction to ME, to make them clean somehow.
Sean Miller wrote:
Hi Rowan,
What is it you don't understand?
They appear to be giving you two options :-
a. revert to the default Ubuntu driver
1. mv
2009/3/2 Rowan rowan.berke...@googlemail.com:
Sean, is make clean modules an instruction you type in? I assumed it
was an instruction to ME, to make them clean somehow.
It is a command, yes. However I just tried it here using that driver
and it fails, because the (realtek - not LC) seem to
Al, this is exactly the sort of thing that made me ask over and over for
hands-on help - which would not only be more likely to succeed but would
be faster than all this online discussion.
Alan Pope wrote:
2009/3/2 Rowan rowan.berke...@googlemail.com:
Sean, is make clean modules an
p.s. (sorry to double post where one would do): I shall ask them by
email whether or not that is the case. Before even turning it on, I want
comprehensive instructions including contingencies.
Alan Pope wrote:
2009/3/2 Rowan rowan.berke...@googlemail.com:
Sean, is make clean modules an
I typed that in exactly as you gave it, Al, and got no output at all.
How do I check which ubuntu version I have? I know it goes by very fast
during the boot sequence, I think it's 24 something.
Alan Pope wrote:
2009/3/2 Rowan rowan.berke...@googlemail.com:
p.s. (sorry to double post
Nope, and I am no idea where to find this magazine of which you speak,
nor do I much want to. I have the restore discs, and that's it. But thanks.
Tony Travis wrote:
Rowan wrote:
Al, this is exactly the sort of thing that made me ask over and over for
hands-on help - which would not only
Rowan wrote:
I typed that in exactly as you gave it, Al, and got no output at all.
How do I check which ubuntu version I have? I know it goes by very fast
during the boot sequence, I think it's 24 something.
[...]
Hello, Rowan.
To find out which kernel you are running type:
uname
Excellent stuff, Tony, thanks again.
uname -a gives
Linux ubuntu 2.6.24-23-generic #1 SMP Mon Jan 26 00:13:11 UTC 2009 i686
GNU/Linux
administration/system monitor/system gives
Ubuntu Release 8.04 (hardy)
Kernel Linux 2.6.24-23-generic
GNOME 2.22.3
Tony Travis wrote:
Rowan wrote:
I typed
2009/3/2 Rowan rowan.berke...@googlemail.com:
I typed that in exactly as you gave it, Al, and got no output at all.
It's case sensitive. Alternatively you can press ALT+F2, and then in
the box type gksu nautilus /root and then navigate to
/root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src and open the Makefile to
I reproduced the cases (and the spaces) as you gave them, Al.
There is no KVARS line at all in the Makefile. Here are the contents.
KVER := $(shell uname -r)
KDIR := /lib/modules/$(KVER)/build
KMISC := /lib/modules/$(KVER)/kernel/drivers/net/
KEXT := $(shell
Rowan wrote:
Excellent stuff, Tony, thanks again.
uname -a gives
Linux ubuntu 2.6.24-23-generic #1 SMP Mon Jan 26 00:13:11 UTC 2009 i686
GNU/Linux
administration/system monitor/system gives
Ubuntu Release 8.04 (hardy)
Kernel Linux 2.6.24-23-generic
GNOME 2.22.3
Hello, Rowan.
OK, you
My head is spinning. I shall let the machine have a rest (and also my
brain). We can maybe discuss what you all think is really the best thing
long-term. It is a lovely, lovely machine. I need to power it down now
anyway, because I took a little tip from the Compal manual, which is
this: after
Could people kindly amplify the following cryptic instructions from
LinuxCertified's engineers so that a complete ignoramus like me can
follow them? I have reproduced the lines of code EXACTLY as transmitted.
My current machine is getting rather wonky, so I need to get all this on
paper
Hi Rowan,
What is it you don't understand?
They appear to be giving you two options :-
a. revert to the default Ubuntu driver
1. mv /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.bak
2. sed 's/blacklist r8169/#blacklist r8169/' /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.bak
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
I don't understand instruction 2. Is it one long line? What is the
doing there, and is it single spaced in between the two long strings? Or
did it creep in when the email was transmitted?
sed 's/blacklist r8169/#blacklist r8169/' /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.bak
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
I would certainly want to make it clear to anyone considering starting
with Linux that unless they are already online with another machine (I
am using a beat-up old sony running WinXP) it will be absolute hell for
them to find anyone who can help them get started. I could not possibly
have
On 25/02/2009 15:19, Jon Reynolds wrote:
Hi all,
I would like to add something to this, although not entirely relevant to
Rowan's case, but it reminds me of a lot of people thinking when it comes to
adopting Linux.
I have tried, half-heartedly, to get family members to switch to Ubuntu,
Rowan wrote:
I would certainly want to make it clear to anyone considering starting
with Linux that unless they are already online with another machine (I
am using a beat-up old sony running WinXP) it will be absolute hell for
them to find anyone who can help them get started.
[...]
Hello,
I didn't start out with the preconception that someone else would have
to sort it out for me hands-on. However, I do feel that now, and
yesterday two people on this list said quite cheerfully that at some
point it should be possible to do just that, and I don't want to start
reviewing that
Thanks but I shall wait until someone is able to reinstall the driver,
install DKMS, and give the thing a general once-over, as discussed earlier.
Please understand that although I appreciate the 'open source
philosophy' I do NOT regard myself as competent to fix this.
Matthew Daubney wrote:
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