I must be the only person to, er, not get on with Ubuntu. I have the latest Kubuntu CD (v6.06 from the last CLUG meeting, thanks Chris). It boots and all, but I can't get the network working.
The PC is an IBM ThinkPad 600E laptop with a Xircom PCMCIA ethernet card. I bought the PC on TradeMe and it already had Ubuntu Breezy on it. I couldn't get the network going with Ubuntu, so I booted from an old Mepis Live CD, and all was well- the PC ran fine (which it did anyway under Ubuntu) and the network was all working (using dhcp to get an IP address). So, I thought I'd ignore the problem with the old Ubuntu and upgrade anyway to Kubuntu, since nothing is actually broken and you guys are full of the praises of K/Ubuntu... I have booted the Kubuntu CD, and the PCMCIA card is detected as eth0, and dhcp attempts to get an IP address, but fails. I basically can't get an IP address with DHCP, and I can't assign one manually. Ping fails with "Destination host unreachable" and Google is surprisingly light on suggestions (but it seems it is a common problem). I have read that it could be due to IPV6 being present- how do I turn that off? The other problem (tulip drivers) is not the problem, as the tulip module is not loaded. I may just skip Kubuntu and go to the latest Mepis (version 6- just released), but since it is derived from Ubuntu (not Debian as it was previously) I am worried I will get the same problem. (Besides, I have tried 3 times to download the ISO and Windows has crashed half way through. Now I have a wget job running on my Linux server. Don't ask.) Any help on getting networking up with Kubuntu would be appreciated. Thank you, Andrew
