I think we have provided immense amounts of information detailing exactly the commands that Rowan needs to recompile and reinstall his driver. Either he knuckles down and tries it ...
I already did just that, I believe: type the following as root or using sudo to rebuild the r8168 driver: cd /root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00 make clean modules make install depmod -a reboot "cd /root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00" had to be entered without sudo. "make clean modules" required sudo and gave result as follows: make -C src/ clean make[1]: Entering directory `/root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src' rm -rf *.o *.ko *~core* .dep* .*.d .*.cmd *.mod.c *.a *.s .*.flags .tmp_version s Module.symvers Modules.symvers *.order make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src' make -C src/ modules make[1]: Entering directory `/root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src' make -C /lib/modules/2.6.24-23-generic/build SUBDIRS=/src modules make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-23-generic' scripts/Makefile.build:41: src/Makefile: No such file or directory make[3]: *** No rule to make target `src/Makefile'. Stop. make[2]: *** [_module_/src] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-23-generic' make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src' make *** [modules] Error 2 Alan Pope wrote: > On 05/03/2009, Sean Miller <s...@seanmiller.net> wrote: > >> I really think you're wasting your time, Rowan, dealing with them. >> >> > > Harsh. > > >> I am convinced that if you let Ubuntu simply install itself you'll >> have all your issues fixed. >> >> > > I'd be willing to bet that's not the case. Look at it from LC point of > view. They want to ship a laptop running Ubuntu but they _know_ the > driver that ships with Ubuntu is "broken" or "sub-optimal" so they go > to the effort of getting the source and building a decent driver into > their build of Ubuntu. > > They clearly have made some effort making a recovery CD which can > revert everything back to factory default which says to me they are > far from clueless. > > The fact is that they have a luckless and clueless (his words) user > who doesn't understand how these things fit together. It's not easy > supporting someone who has only just started out on this journey, and > I think we should pay LC some respect for trying. > > >> It is one of the things we've been taught to do, phone or e-mail the >> supplier in the first instance, but when it comes to Linux I have >> never felt it to be the right move. If the machine is not "mature" >> (ie. filled with applications, files and whatever) it's often far >> better to simply wipe it and start again. >> >> > > You're not Rowan though. You have orders of magnitude more skill and > experience in use of Linux than he appears to. If he goes for a > vanilla install of Ubuntu it's entirely likely that he'll end up with > some level of brokenness somewhere and no support from LC. > > >> What do others think? >> >> > > I think we have provided immense amounts of information detailing > exactly the commands that Rowan needs to recompile and reinstall his > driver. Either he knuckles down and tries it, or he takes his laptop > to a local Linux User Group (or even a remote one :) ) and gets > someone to look at it with/for him. > > Cheers, > Al. > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
