Etienne,

Ah, you switched to another NIC altogether.  I'll second your conclusion
of "too buggy to use".  Originally, I would have avoided these issues
entirely by upgrading from this server from 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS, but
one of my good friend's only hard drive is on its last legs, and he
needed a really, really cheap replacement asap...so I got a new drive
triple the size, and gave him my gently used one for a friends-only
price.  As you've noticed, the linux kernel seems to have been going
through another round of growing pains.  I worried that JFS (which I've
used for four years on the same Ubuntu installation) might suffer a
regression as a result, as developer focus seems to be on ext4, btrfs,
and various flash file systems.  I've never liked ext3, especially for
huge (for me, anything over 250GB is huge) partitions.  Ext4 was marked
stable, and Jaunty shipped with support for it.  After verifying its
stability on my old workhorse laptop, I decided to switch my family &
friends mail/media/centre for non-linear musical collaboration...server
to Jaunty...and I only have a week before I help my friend migrate to
his new drive, so I've been calmly, but as quickly as possible, trying
to have both ext4 (future-proofing) and my wireless NIC fully functional
before that happens...without spending any more money.

>From what I've seen of linux-2.6.30.x, the turbulence is history (for
now)...and think that it's reasonable for us to expect that 9.10 Karmic
is going to be really, really good. :-D

Cordially,
Nicolas

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