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 the Ubuntu forums. If that's your problem (or one of) I can try dig out what I did to fix it for you. Simon Wears munkyju...@gmail.com | http://munkyju...@gmail.com MunkyJunky on irc.freenode.net On 5 Mar 2009, at 14:06, Rowan <rowan.berke...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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 /root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00 > make clean modules > make install > depmod -a > reboot > > "cd /root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00" had to be entered without sudo. > > "make clean modules" required sudo and gave result as follows: > > make -C src/ clean > make[1]: Entering directory `/root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src' > rm -rf *.o *.ko *~core* .dep* .*.d .*.cmd *.mod.c *.a > *.s .*.flags .tmp_version > s Module.symvers Modules.symvers *.order > make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src' > make -C src/ modules > make[1]: Entering directory `/root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src' > make -C /lib/modules/2.6.24-23-generic/build SUBDIRS=/src modules > make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-23-generic' > scripts/Makefile.build:41: src/Makefile: No such file or directory > make[3]: *** No rule to make target `src/Makefile'. Stop. > make[2]: *** [_module_/src] Error 2 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-23-generic' > make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src' > make *** [modules] Error 2 > > > > Alan Pope wrote: >> On 05/03/2009, Sean Miller <s...@seanmiller.net> 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. They want to ship a laptop running Ubuntu but they _know_ the >> driver that ships with Ubuntu is "broken" or "sub-optimal" so they go >> to the effort of getting the source and building a decent driver into >> their build of Ubuntu. >> >> They clearly have made some effort making a recovery CD which can >> revert everything back to factory default which says to me they are >> far from clueless. >> >> The fact is that they have a luckless and clueless (his words) user >> who doesn't understand how these things fit together. It's not easy >> supporting someone who has only just started out on this journey, and >> I think we should pay LC some respect for trying. >> >> >>> 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 >>> never felt it to be the right move. If the machine is not "mature" >>> (ie. filled with applications, files and whatever) it's often far >>> better to simply wipe it and start again. >>> >>> >> >> 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 no support from LC. >> >> >>> What do others think? >>> >>> >> >> 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, or he takes his laptop >> to a local Linux User Group (or even a remote one :) ) and gets >> someone to look at it with/for him. >> >> Cheers, >> Al. >> >> > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
