-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, A good mate of mine is having a strange problem with his (Ubuntu 7.10) internet connection. I have included the relevant text from his email to me. If anyone could suggest a direction in which to look I would be grateful.
Quote: > I am very puzzled at moment by my bigbox ubuntu...by my network/internet > > connection. Microsoft xp has no probs at all , on same box. > But ubuntu will connect once or twice IF I MOVE THE NETWORK CARD FROM > ONE SLOT TO ANOTHER between boots! > I've been through a rigmarole which the ancient mariner would've been > perplexed by: > I've tested all the hdds, unplugged lots of peripherals, reinstalled, > said noapic (on one hint from an ubuntu help), > but I always return to same lack of connection, after seeming success. > when I have this lack of connection, network tools always says that my > eth0 network hardware is non existent (and also avahi appears as > another network option... what avahi is, i dunno, but it always pops > up as an option when I can't connect) I haven't come across this problem before. Heracles -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHTViTybPcBAs9CE8RAgXJAJ9Ek/QXRH+j+NsE2qs/SxMfOBKJEQCgv/CY U1nX078w6E6BeOuH7ORrtUM= =xRhL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
