A few weeks ago, my wife bought herself an MSI Laptop from Novatech
(http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/laptop/range/novatechi5.html). They say
it's a Novatech i5, but it's not even rebadged and it's definitely an MSI GX
740 (http://uk.msi.com/news.php?news_no=17).
She bought it mainly for gaming, so it's got Windows 7 on it. However, she
prefers Linux for just about everything else, so I installed Kubuntu 10.04 as
a dual boot and set it up before I went off to work up in Lincolnshire.
Pretty much everything was working except sound in Skype.
Since then networking has broken and it's pretty useless for anything much.
I've tried wired and wireless connections, but it's more fundamental than
that. When I type ifconfig, I only get the lo interface. However, if I turn
wireless on and off the kernel log shows that it is being detected. The
networking tool KNetworkManager simply says that networking is disabled.
It's almost easier to just re-install Kubuntu, but before I do that, does
anyone have any thoughts on how this could be fixed?
Networking is still fine in W7.
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Terry Coles
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