homecomputeraid Posted November 2, 2005 Report Share Posted November 2, 2005 Hi all,I just installed Ubuntu 5.10 on my laptop. An older version of Ubuntu worked great on it! It installed cleanly, screen resolution was good, network card installed. No problems.The 5.10 version is a different story. I'm dual booting with Windows XP. The dual-boot works fine, but when I get into Ubuntu, screen resolution is terrible, no NIC, and it looks like the Intel 82852 ChipSet isn't installed right. Anyone have any experience with installing and/or updating drivers like chipsets?I'm looking on Ubuntu's forums and I'll let you know what I find. Any help here would be great too.Sincerely, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homecomputeraid Posted November 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2005 I've tried a clean install, and the results were no better. I was concerned that I got impatient during the first install when the PC was just sitting there and rebooted too early in the install. I'm thinking about rolling back to the version of Ubuntu that worked!Nothing on the Ubuntu forum so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted November 8, 2005 Report Share Posted November 8, 2005 As for the Intel chipset, you can check to see if the kernel module is being loaded with the lsmod command. You could also try assuring that the modelines in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf are correct for your monitor. One other thing to try: run this command as root:xorgconfigBe aware, you must have your monitor's documentation available, as you will need the vertical and horizontal refresh rates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homecomputeraid Posted November 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 Wierd thing,I just booted into Linux by mistake and it's working great now!The NIC is using a loopback address instead of the DHCP configuration, but I should be able to figure out why it's doing that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted November 21, 2005 Report Share Posted November 21, 2005 If the nic is using a loopback address then it's probably not the nic, but instead the loopback device. Do you see the eth0 device? Or is it lo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homecomputeraid Posted November 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2005 All I see when booted into Linux is the lo device. I do have a linklight on my NIC though. It's an Intel PRO/100 VE Nic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted November 23, 2005 Report Share Posted November 23, 2005 Thats the loopback device. Chances are that the kernel module isn't loading. Do a 'lsmod' (as root) and look for this module: eepro100 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homecomputeraid Posted November 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2005 I did lsmod and saw e100, and mii e100. What do I do with those? Where do I get drivers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted November 24, 2005 Report Share Posted November 24, 2005 Those are the drivers... it means the kernel modules are loading.Try bringing up the interface manually:ifconfig UP eth0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homecomputeraid Posted November 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2005 Thanks Scuzzman!The command ifconfig eth0 up seemed to do it, but I got an access denied message. I think I have to run it as administrator, but I forgot how to do that. lo is up, but eth0 won't enable from the GUI.Ted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted November 29, 2005 Report Share Posted November 29, 2005 Needs to be done as root. You're looking for the 'sudo' command. BTW: to login as root, you first (in Ubuntu) need to change the root password:sudo passwdYou can then login as root. You can also (and it's suggested) to just use sudo to do your administration tasks by prepending the command with 'sudo'. It will then prompt you for a password; type your user password, NOT root's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homecomputeraid Posted December 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 Thanks Scuzzman,I'm sure we're on the right track here. I was able to enable eth0 and disable the lo interface. I still couldn't get an IP Address from my DHCP Server though. I tried putting one on manually, including adding my Default Gateway and DNS Server, but still couldn't ping out.Do you know how to do an IPConfig /renew in Linux? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 Well, first, re-enable the lo device. You can renew the ip by stopping and restarting the network. Usually, this will be in your startup scripts. Unfortunately though, this differs by distro. On my Slackware box, this would be /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 restart Yours should be similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted December 9, 2005 Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 I just remembered these commands which may come in useful.ifup eth0ifdown eth0Of course, replace eth0 with your interface.man ifupFor additional information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarenaSix Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 well today i messed up i got windows XP ro and ubuntu 5.10 and ubuntu 5.04 on one of my laptops ,, i downlonded kubuntu 5.10 yesterday so i wanted to format out the 5.04 and install kubuntu on that patition now being im a freekin know itall i just didnot pay any mind to what i was doing and deleted out 5.10 and 5.04 installed kubuntu and now dont like it and was pissed i lost my 5.10 i felt kubuntu was just slaped togather un like ubuntu any way i now formated out kubuntu and reistall ubuntu 5.10 again i wasted my time and shoulda left well enough alone LOL live and learn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
korgg Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 That is why I almost always make my partitions different sizes so I know wich partition I want to format ... (I always remember partition size and the OS on them ...) ...Might be usefull to somebody :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarenaSix Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 I always remember partition size and the OS on themyeah i thought that too the problem was " i " and "always" lol "remamber" played a small part to :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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