[olug] drivers

[Shannon]

i think there are a number of eee distros that should have the drivers you
need already in them. some are based of ubuntu

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:01 AM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:

> Are you saying neither of them will work?
>
> Every once in while, the NetworkManager won't autoconfigure them, and
> you have to manually configure them. You could try opening a terminal,
> and then typing:
>
> ifconfig eth0 up
> dhcpcd eth0
>
> This is assuming that your wired card shows up as eth0, but it should.
>
> I'm an openSUSE guy, but I'm assuming Ubuntu has dhcpcd installed.
> I've seen some distros use different dhcp tools.
>
> You might want to look through lsmod and dmesg to see if the drivers
> aren't loading correctly.
>
> And I hate to ask the stupid question, but shouldn't you be putting on
> the latest Ubuntu, which should be 9.10? Or maybe even an alpha build
> of 10.4? I believe there are nightly builds of Ubuntu available.
>
> -- T. J.
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:08 AM, adam davis <radamdavis at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > hi
> >
> > I just bought a asus Eee pc netbook. I tried putting Ubuntu 9.04 on it.
> But the wireless or the wired nic will work.
> >
> > Does anyone have a suggestion for this problem?
> >
> > </Adam>
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