Rowan wrote:
> Oh, absolutely, the applications are all in the repositories, they have
> said so several times. But you can imagine how much angst I would
> generate trying to do it that way. I suspect that the trick is to catch
> one of the boot options when first powering up, before it goes into
That was our interim conclusion, Simon, but it now appears that the
problem is more complex. What happened was this: the suppliers sent the
machine out to me with automatic updates switched on, and being a
first-time user I allowed it to download and attempt to install a
whole series of upda
I missed the first lot of emails about this, so I may be WAY off the
point here.
Looking at that last email, are you having network issues with the
r8168 driver? If so, I had that with Hardy, on a Realtek network card.
I can't remember entirely what I did, but I know I posted about it on
t
On 05/03/2009, Sean Miller wrote:
> Trying to fix something that is broken is FAR harder than simply
> re-installing, and it sounds like he's sufficiently early on in his
> "Linux journey" to do that without losing too much.
>
Sounds like the windows way of "fixing" things. "Just reboot", "Jus
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Alan Pope wrote:
> 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
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 /roo
On 05/03/2009, Sean Miller 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. The
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Rowan wrote:
> yeah, well, California ... they're probably all stoned ...
Can we join in do you think? Could just do with getting stoned, but
in cloudy Shepton Mallet there are no hippies to commune with...
*deep breath*
;-)
Sean
--
ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
yeah, well, California ... they're probably all stoned ...
Sean Miller wrote:
> I really think you're wasting your time, Rowan, dealing with them.
>
> I am convinced that if you let Ubuntu simply install itself you'll
> have all your issues fixed.
>
> It is one of the things we've been taught to d
Oh, absolutely, the applications are all in the repositories, they have
said so several times. But you can imagine how much angst I would
generate trying to do it that way. I suspect that the trick is to catch
one of the boot options when first powering up, before it goes into
Ubuntu, perhaps
I really think you're wasting your time, Rowan, dealing with them.
I am convinced that if you let Ubuntu simply install itself you'll
have all your issues fixed.
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
On 05/03/2009 12:39, Rowan wrote:
> thanks guys -- I have all the time in the world, it's just that I am a
> bit luckless (and clueless). This DVD is the one that LinuxCertified
> made specifically as an 'image' of their own particular configuration
> with all its applications, but they also suppli
thanks guys -- I have all the time in the world, it's just that I am a
bit luckless (and clueless). This DVD is the one that LinuxCertified
made specifically as an 'image' of their own particular configuration
with all its applications, but they also supplied a CD with just the
ubuntu minus the
My advice, Rowan...
- back everything up that you need (probably only /home/rowan or whatever)
- re-install from a fresh Ubuntu CD.
Trying to work out what's going on with this one just seems to be
taking up time of yours that you really do not have... the truth is
that Ubuntu is VERY good these
On 05/03/2009 11:51, Rowan wrote:
> Hello again, people.
>
> It seems, after many emails back& forth, that the partially-installed
> updates really screwed up a lot of things in the
> Ubuntu-plus-applications installation originally shipped to me, so I
> want to run the restore disc, which is supp
Hello again, people.
It seems, after many emails back & forth, that the partially-installed
updates really screwed up a lot of things in the
Ubuntu-plus-applications installation originally shipped to me, so I
want to run the restore disc, which is supposed to restore all of these.
It doesn't
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