I know a few folks here like to try Ubuntu and other alpha releases. Beware that there's a kernel bug which may "permanently" break your wired network card:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/263555 Although the bug is listed on Ubuntu's launchpad, it affects other distros, too. If I read it correctly, this bug would affect my laptop: $ lspci | grep 8256[67] 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566MM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03) $ lsmod | grep e1000 e1000 126016 0 The preemptive solution is to blacklist the e1000 driver. If the kernel already broke your NIC, then the solution seems to be flash the hardware on the NIC -- don't have any idea how easy or hard that is to do. Regards, - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
