[olug] Ubuntu Installation

[Jay Bendon]

You can easily check to see if you're impacted by this issue by doing a

user at box:~$ lsmod |grep r8169

--Jay


On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Jay Bendon <jaybocc2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>> Sam Flint
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