> > On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:13:52 +0000, 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 router, but cannot get > >>> anything through firefox, thunderbird, synaptic etc. The hardware test > >>> claims to be able to touch the net. > >>> > >>> Can anyone help with diagnosing these problems? > >>> > >>> TIA > >>> > >>> John > > > > 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. :-( > > > > Chris > > 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 sure you report bugs! The next > release is an LTS so should be by far more stable on release. > > -Matt Daubney
I notice that the DNS / potential IPv6 bug has been reported and has loads of activity against it. Nothing seems to be happening though. For one laptop after the network / graphics / CPU power management all went wrong I kinda got a bit fed up lol! I might sit this release out... Chris
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