[olug] Ubuntu Installation

[Jay Bendon]

Hi Walt,

No reason to abandon the wonderful world of Debian (ubuntu is a less
wonderful world) for fedoraland, unless of course you feel like you want
to. ;)

What version is your realtek nic?  I have issues with r8169 (to put
it accurately  its broke as fuck.) and have to blacklist and remove it
every time ubuntu decides to !@#$ing update something and instead i
use r8168 which works flawlessly.

I have a script setup to do this at boot.

You may be experiencing the same issue, if so i'd be more than happy to
share my experiences with you.

--Jay


On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Sam Flint <harmonicnm7h at gmail.com> wrote:

> try fedora, i haven't had driver problems yet, though with debian derivs i
> have...
>
> Sam
> Happy Hacking!
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Walt Del Vecchio <
> walt.delvecchio at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
> > Hello, all.
> > I'm a recent transplant to Nebraska from southern California (please
> don't
> > hold this against me).
> > My 5-yr old Linux box finally burned out after my move a couple of months
> > ago.
> > I rebuilt a new system using an AMD FX-8350 CPU on a Gigabyte
> GA-990FXA-UD3
> > mobo.
> > UEFI configuration is no problem since it allows a legacy mode.
> > The hardware came with Windows drivers for Ethernet, USB, RAID1, etc.
> > configurations, and these work fine when I loaded a spare copy of
> Windows7.
> > My problem occurs getting peripherals working with Linux.
> > I downloaded Ubuntu 12.10 and burned it to a DVD.
> > After installing it on the new system, only the PS2 keyboard and monitors
> > worked after getting a Ubuntu login screen.
> > I had dead Ethernet and USB connections.
> > RAID1 was no longer configured.
> > I attempted to obtain Linux drivers from Gigabyte, but they only
> supported
> > Windows.
> > I downloaded Linux Ethernet drivers from Realtek, used on the Gigabyte
> > board, but still am not sure whether to plow forward or not.
> >
> > Does anyone have experience or know where I can get help to finish this
> > installation?
> > Thank you for your help.
> > Walt Del Vecchio
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