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I finally got my TV output mostly working for my ATI Radeon X300 video card on my Dell D610 laptop (Intrepid Ibex) over an S-Video cable. The only thing I haven't been able to figure out is how to...

I have submit a bug report here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/290290

So I modified my 'Wired Connection' in the Network Manager applet and unchecked 'Enable roaming mode' and set 'Configuration' to DHCP.

Now if I reboot the network interface comes up, gets an IP...

This morning I upgraded to linux 2.6.24-21 because of the 'security update' available the Update Manager. Unfortunately, immediately after rebooting my networking is no longer working.

If I type...

I set up a Samba share on the Ubuntu virtual machine, and transfers to that share from the WinXP host are extremely fast. Whatever is wrong is specific to mounting WinXP shares using cifs from Ubuntu.

I tried mounting with cifs instead but unfortunately the transfer rate is still very slow.

Strangely, transferring over SFTP is much faster - about 5MB/s on average.

I've seen a few posts about slow transfer rates with smbfs but so far I've not found any particular solutions. Let me describe my setup:

I have VMWare installed under WinXP, and I've got Ubuntu...

Well I took a shot in the dark and installed linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-16-386 version 2.6.24.12-16.34, and amazingly that seems to have done the trick. Must be my lucky day!

As a side note,...

This morning I upgraded from Gutsy to Hardy and (just as happened when I upgraded from Feisty to Gutsy) suddenly my Linksys PCMCIA won't work anymore.

I discussed this problem previously on the...

I have the exact same problem! It's frustrating, because I can't even get past Step 0 to attempt the instructions described in this thread.

Has anyone found a solution to this, or at least a...