I don't understand instruction 2. Is it one long line? What is the > doing there, and is it single spaced in between the two long strings? Or did it creep in when the email was transmitted?
sed 's/blacklist r8169/#blacklist r8169/' /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.bak > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist Sean Miller wrote: > Hi Rowan, > > What is it you don't understand? > > They appear to be giving you two options :- > > a. revert to the default Ubuntu driver > > >> 1. mv /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.bak >> 2. sed 's/blacklist r8169/#blacklist r8169/' /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.bak > >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist >> 3. reboot >> > > So you go into shell and switch to root, which you can do by typing > "sudo bash" and then entering your password. You then take what's > written in 1 and 2 above and type them into the shell exactly as > shown. After that you shutdown and restart the computer, either by > using "shutdown -rf" from the shell or from the desktop. > > b. update their driver > > >> 1. cd /root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00 >> 2. make clean modules >> 3. depmod -a >> 4. reboot" >> > > Same principle as above... type exactly what's written in 1-3 and then > restart. > > Best, > > Sean > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
