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: > Hiya Rowan, > > You may have already tried this, and if so feel free to ignore this > email. > > I don't suppose you have an Ubuntu LiveCD about? These can be downloaded > from the Ubuntu website if you don't and burnt to a CD-R. > > <additional information you may want to skip, I'm uncertain as to your > familiarity with Linux and Ubuntu to so please feel free to jump > anything you already know> > > The LiveCD gives you an Ubuntu environment running of the CD with all of > Ubuntu's default settings. Unless you click the install and go through > the installer, it should make no changes to your current computer > configuration. > > <end additional information> > > If you can boot your computer from one of these, and the network works, > then all we have to identify is which network card you have and which > modules you need to install. If so this is a very easy task if you can > get the results from a couple of commands to us. The best one to send to > the list is the result from running lspci* in a terminal and the bit > that says something like "Ethernet Controller". Mine looks like > "00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc Gigabit Ethernet Adapter > (rev 11)" > > Hope this helps somewhat. > > -Matt Daubney > > * You might be used to working in a terminal already, but just in case, > open a terminal (applications -> accessories -> Terminal) and type: > > lspci > > then enter. This will tell us everything that is connected to a PCI type > adapter in your laptop. > > On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 19:53 +0000, Rowan wrote: > >> LinuxCertified have informed me that "r8168 is the only driver we chose >> to use instead of default driver in Ubuntu", so hopefully things will be >> simpler than I feared. >> >> > > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
