Well, I'm very grateful for that explanation, Sean, I really am. I shall read it very carefully and digest it slowly - it has taken me two weeks to even boil down the question to a sufficiently succinct form to be answerable.
Tell me, do you think there is any good reason, in anybody's minds but the LinuxCertified engineers, to use a non default driver at all? Is the "instability" in the r8169 driver a matter of common knowledge, or just something they dreamed up to make life more confusing? Rowan Sean Miller wrote: > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Rowan <rowan.berke...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> > > It's one line. > > "sed" is a command in Unix/Linux which substitutes one string for > another. In a shell if you do "cmd > file" it takes the output from > the command and writes it to the file specified. > > So, the instructions are thus :- > > 1. mv /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.bak > > "mv" is the shell equivilant of the DOS "ren", it renames the file. > So we take the file blacklist and rename it to blacklist.bak > > 2. sed 's/blacklist r8169/#blacklist r8169/' > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.bak > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist > > our "sed" instruction is to replace the string "blacklist r8169" in > the file with "#blacklist r8169" - in other words to comment out any > lines that say that (# being the comment command), "s/string1/string2" > being the sed command for substitution. > > we're then going to output the results to the file > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist (ie. the same as the file we renamed in 1). > > Hope that is helpful. > > They could, of course, have simply given you the following > instructions which would do the same thing... > > --> edit the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and comment out using # > any lines that say "blacklist r8169", then reboot. Be sure to back up > the file before you start. > > ...but I guess that'd be too easy, eh? > > Sean > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
