On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:25, you wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:19:35 +1200 > > Craig FALCONER wrote: > > Sounds like the PCMCIA controller is not in the kubuntu kernel config. > > > > Please compare a dmesg from mepis with a dmesg under kubuntu. > > > > If its not listed in lspci it is a 16 bit PCMCIA card for sure. > > or compare the kernel config files, a copy of which is usually found in > /boot I think.
Ok, I have booted Ubuntu (the image that was on the hard drive) and installed a known 32-bit PCMCIA ethernet card. It appears in lspci. 0000:06:00.0 Ethernet Controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) I disabled IPV6 by following the instructions here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=87798 (and it is gone- no IPV6 output in ifconfig, and no IPV6 modules loaded). The card is detected as eth0 (it was before with the 16-bit card) dhcp now works on eth0 (it wasn't before) but takes a while. But... I can only get one or two pings to a host (my router box or server) and the rest are lost. Ping times are huge too. If I ping my router from my server then no packets are lost, and the ping times are ~1ms. So, I have made some progress, but I thought Ubuntu was supposed to be easy... I might have to go back to doing things the hard way with Debian. A
