Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Alan Pope
2009/10/27 Rob Beard : > I've already signed up for an account, I just can't be bothered to enter > my login details every time I login.  I'd have thought it would just > remember the details in the application itself (like how Network Manager > remembers my wireless network key). > You shouldn't

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Alan Pope
2009/10/27 John Levin : > What tools are these? And are they available for Jaunty, if not > installed by default? OS X has something similar (the name escapes me > atm) which has saved my proverbial bacon before. > gnome-disk-utility. I don't believe it's in Jaunty, only karmic onwards. It was dev

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Alan Pope
2009/10/27 Daniel Drummond : > This is due to the inclusion of drive monitoring tools in Karmic.  They > weren't present in Jaunty, which is why you only found out when you > installed Karmic.  I've had a warning up about one of my drives, but it > is pretty much brand new, and hasn't been used muc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread John Levin
On 27/10/2009 12:31, Daniel Drummond wrote: >> > This is due to the inclusion of drive monitoring tools in Karmic. They > weren't present in Jaunty, which is why you only found out when you > installed Karmic. I've had a warning up about one of my drives, but it > is pretty much brand new, and h

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread John Levin
On 27/10/2009 10:20, etali wrote: > John Levin wrote: >> On 27/10/2009 08:47, LeeGroups wrote: >> >>> >> >> I've now gone back to Jaunty. This is the first time that any Ubuntu >> version hasn't got online "out of the box" for me. Very disappointing. >> >> John >> >> >> > I've only just subscribed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/10/27 Rob Beard : > Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: >> 2009/10/27 Rob Beard : >> >>> One thing I was wondering though, when I login, Firefox pops up with an >>> Ubuntu One/Launchpad login page.  Is there any way of stopping this >>> popping up every time? >>> >>> Rob >>> >>> >> >> You could remove

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Rob Beard
Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > 2009/10/27 Rob Beard : > >> One thing I was wondering though, when I login, Firefox pops up with an >> Ubuntu One/Launchpad login page. Is there any way of stopping this >> popping up every time? >> >> Rob >> >> > > You could remove Ubuntu One from the list of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Daniel Drummond
Rob Beard wrote: > Sean Miller wrote: > >> I will only install Karmic again if it promises me it won't tell me my >> hard drive is dying. >> >> Jaunty has never done, and if it is dying I'd honestly rather not know. >> >> Sean >> >> >> > Surely it's good to know so you can make sure you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/10/27 Rob Beard : > One thing I was wondering though, when I login, Firefox pops up with an > Ubuntu One/Launchpad login page.  Is there any way of stopping this > popping up every time? > > Rob > > You could remove Ubuntu One from the list of Startup Applications, or remove ubuntu-one comple

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Rob Beard
Sean Miller wrote: > I will only install Karmic again if it promises me it won't tell me my > hard drive is dying. > > Jaunty has never done, and if it is dying I'd honestly rather not know. > > Sean > > Surely it's good to know so you can make sure you have up to date backups. I've just had a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Rob Beard
Matt Daubney wrote: > 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,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Chris Rowson
> > On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:13:52 +, Chris Rowson > 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 l

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Johnathon Tinsley
etali wrote: > John Levin wrote: >> On 27/10/2009 08:47, LeeGroups wrote: >> >> I've now gone back to Jaunty. This is the first time that any Ubuntu >> version hasn't got online "out of the box" for me. Very disappointing. >> >> John >> >> >> > I've only just subscribed to this list. How lo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread etali
John Levin wrote: > On 27/10/2009 08:47, LeeGroups wrote: > >> > > I've now gone back to Jaunty. This is the first time that any Ubuntu > version hasn't got online "out of the box" for me. Very disappointing. > > John > > > I've only just subscribed to this list. How long ago did you downlo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Nick
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 09:29 +, Matt Daubney wrote: > On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:13:52 +, Chris Rowson > 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 > >>> Leopar

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread John Levin
On 27/10/2009 08:47, LeeGroups wrote: > > > >> >> 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

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Matt Daubney
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:32:49 +, Sean Miller wrote: > I will only install Karmic again if it promises me it won't tell me my > hard drive is dying. > > Jaunty has never done, and if it is dying I'd honestly rather not know. > > Sean That's one thing I'd definatley want to know! Make sure y

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Sean Miller
I will only install Karmic again if it promises me it won't tell me my hard drive is dying. Jaunty has never done, and if it is dying I'd honestly rather not know. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Matt Daubney
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:13:52 +, Chris Rowson 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,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread LeeGroups
> > 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. :-( On the other hand, I've

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-26 Thread Chris Rowson
>> 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

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-26 Thread John Levin
On 26/10/2009 20:54, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > 2009/10/26 John Levin: >> 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

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-26 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/10/26 John Levin : > 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, thund

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-26 Thread James Milligan
Have you installed the Guest Additions correctly? Proxy/Static IP? James John Levin 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