The RTL 8111 works out of the box in Intrepid, too (at least it did for me).
Simon Wears munkyju...@gmail.com | http://munkyju...@gmail.com MunkyJunky on irc.freenode.net On 6 Mar 2009, at 09:25, Michael Holloway <mich...@thedarkwinter.com> wrote: > Rowan > > For the record, I have just bought a new computer [I7 based ;)] and > have > installed Jaunty (which is still in Alpha so I would not recommend it > yet). I have the same network device as you (RTL8111) and it it works > out of the box. If you feel up to it, when Jaunty comes out next month > you can install that. > > After using your system recovery CD (and not updating your system) you > just need to download and burn Jaunty to cd, and then put in in while > ubuntu is running. It will pop up a message saying "Do you want to > update?". Problem solved. > > Cheers, > Michael > > > On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 19:46 +0000, Rowan wrote: >> It turned out to be, press F12 at the POST screen, as it states in >> the >> bottom, then select the optical drive when the boot device menu >> appears. >> It seems to have worked. To prevent all this from happening >> again, I >> need to go to System -> Administration -> Software Sources, and >> uncheck >> the Update tab. Hopefully it will be OK now. Sometime in the future I >> may learn to use Updates selectively, or install DKMS, which is >> clearly >> not especially easy. If I get it online tomorrow, I shall drop you >> all >> an email from it. Thanks for all the advice ... >> > > > -- > 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/
