<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Sorry, I meant to post that to the list.<br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Ed Browne <edward_d_browne@yahoo.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Sean Wilkerson <swilkerson@aplura.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, December 21, 2011 2:32 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [CALUG] NIC gone missing with Ubuntu 11.10<br> </font> <br>
<div id="yiv1569930196"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div><span>Hi Sean and Eric,</span></div><div><span class="yiv1569930196tab"> Yep, that's it. For some reason, the freshly-installed kernel</span></div><div><span class="yiv1569930196tab">doesn't appear at all in the Grub boot menu (which is completely</span></div><div><span class="yiv1569930196tab">unchanged from prior to the upgrade.) I couldn't find any easy</span></div><div><span class="yiv1569930196tab">way to identify and fix all the things that did not get correctly</span></div><div><span class="yiv1569930196tab">modified, so I copied all my personal files to a USB drive and</span></div><div><span class="yiv1569930196tab">did a clean install. I think the reason my upgrade may have</span></div><div><span class="yiv1569930196tab">failed is because I overlooked the fact that the
old system was</span></div><div><span class="yiv1569930196tab">one release behind, so I didn't do the recommended
two-stage <br></span></div><div><span class="yiv1569930196tab">upgrade approach (i.e.</span><span class="yiv1569930196tab">upgrading to 11.04 first, and then from <br></span></div><div><span class="yiv1569930196tab">there to 11.10) as many</span><span class="yiv1569930196tab"> people suggest. Anyway, I'm good now, <br></span></div><div><span class="yiv1569930196tab">thanks very much for the tips.</span></div><div><br><span class="yiv1569930196tab"></span></div><div><span class="yiv1569930196tab">Thanks again - Ed<br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;margin-top:5px;padding-left:5px;"> <div style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Sean Wilkerson <swilkerson@aplura.com><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> Ed Browne
<edward_d_browne@yahoo.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</span></b> Calug <calug@unknownlamer.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, December 20, 2011 3:40 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [CALUG] NIC gone missing with Ubuntu 11.10<br> </font> <br>
Ed,<br><br>I have historically had issues with upgrading most Linux distros, so<br>problems like this are not unusual.<br><br>There are is a significant amount of content available on the Internet<br>for troubleshooting things like this, so I won't recreate that, but here<br>is what you can do to get started:<br><br>- You need to determine if the kernel is seeing the hardware and if so,<br>if the drivers are loaded. It is possible that the mkinitrd that ran at<br>the end of the upgrade didn't add in your drivers properly<br>- Are you sure you booted into the correct kernel for the new version?<br>- Did you try booting to the safe/recovery kernel instance and see if<br>that works<br>- Does the kernel recognize the hardware?<br>-- Run # "dmesg > /tmp/dmesg.out" then grep /tmp/dmesg.out for strings<br>like net, eth, e1000 and see if it finds anything<br>-- Run # "lsmod > /tmp/lsmod.out" then grep /tmp/lsmod.out for strings<br>like net<br>-- Run
# "lshw > /tmp/lshw.out" then grep /tmp/lshw.out for the string<br>network and see what is there<br>- If you have a USB nic, plug that in and see if it works, it should<br>right away<br><br>Sean<br><br>On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 05:03 -0800, Ed Browne wrote:<br>> <br>> <br>> Hi,<br>> Strange problem with Ubuntu 11.10 and my NIC. I did a Network Upgrade<br>> from 11.04 to 11.10, and when it completed (with no apparent problems)<br>> somehow<br>> my network interface is hosed. The chipset is RTL8168C/8111C. Now it<br>> claims<br>> "cable unplugged". So obviously all the network configuration tools<br>> are greyed<br>> out, since it claims it can't even detect the ethernet carrier. But<br>> obviously it's there,<br>> since I completed a successful network upgrade via that very cable<br>> scant moments<br>> before. Any ideas for things to look at? I didn't find anything
like<br>> it by searching<br>> the internet (as best I could without a working NIC ...)<br>> <br>> <br>> Thanks very much, and cheers - Ed<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> CALUG mailing list<br>> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:CALUG@unknownlamer.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:CALUG@unknownlamer.org">CALUG@unknownlamer.org</a><br>> http://lists.unknownlamer.org/listinfo/calug<br><br>-- <br>Sean Wilkerson<br>Partner - Aplura, LLC<br><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:swilkerson@aplura.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:swilkerson@aplura.com">swilkerson@aplura.com</a><br>410-505-8925x1(d)<br>301-523-2110(c)<br><br><br><br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></div></div><br><br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>