New user - a few questiosn

[Bapu]

New Ubuntu user her.

I've insatlled the OS on a Q9550 with 4gb of memory.

1. If I upgrade to 8gb will all memory be immediately recognized?

When I installed I only had one drive connected. Now I have three (and next week I'll have four).

2. How do I format/initialize the the other drives.

When I installed, I did not have the NIC connected. I do not have Internet connectiity. I now plugged in the cable. Still no connectivity (even after a rebboot).

3. How do I get Internet connectivity.

I want to install VMServer.

4. How do I install this software?

TIA for any help.
Bapu.

[lisati]

1. It depends: to get maximum use out of memory, it's sometimes necessary to install the 64-bit version (if your hardware supports it)
4. Many items of software can be installed through the Applications->Add/Remove software menu - it's a good place to start looking for things while you're finding your way around Ubuntu.

[Bapu]

I did inatsll the 64 bit version.

[bgerlich]

1. Yes

2. Depends what solution you want to use. You can either create a software RAID, LVM2 or mount the drives separately. All those solutions have a lot of tutorials describing them.

3.Post the output of lspci, route, ifconfig -a

4.What do you mean by VMServer ? VMware ?

[Bapu]

2. Depends what solution you want to use. You can either create a software RAID, LVM2 or mount the drives separately. All those solutions have a lot of tutorials describing them.

3.Post the output of lspci, route, ifconfig -a

4.What do you mean by VMServer ? VMware ?

2. Standalone.
3. How exactly do I get the output of those? Are they some sort of command line executions. So far all I see is the desktop GUI. Bear with me as I am TOATLLY new to ubuntu. I've used Solaris many years ago and SCO unix even further back. They were all command line interfaces.
4. I've dowmloaded VMware-server-2.0.1-156745.x86_64.tar.gz onto my seperate Windows box. How exactly do I get this to the ubuntu box and install it?

TIA for any help,
bapu.

[Bapu]

I got my drives installed.

Here is the output from lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801IR (ICH9R) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801IR/IO/IH (ICH9R/DO/DH) 4 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600 GT (rev a1)
03:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02)
03:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
05:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)


Here is the output from route:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface


Here is the output of ifconfig -a:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:374 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:374 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:25392 (25.3 KB) TX bytes:25392 (25.3 KB)

pan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr ce:68:54:0b:64:6d
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)


Note eth0 is not there because I thought I would install the the driver from Realtek following these instructions:
<Linux device driver for Realtek Ethernet controllers>

This is the Linux device driver released for RealTek RTL8168B/8111B, RTL8168C/8111C, RTL8168CP/8111CP, RTL8168D/8111D Gigabit Ethernet controllers with PCI-Express interface.

<Requirements>

- Kernel source tree (supported Linux kernel 2.6.x and 2.4.x)
- For linux kernel 2.4.x, this driver supports 2.4.20 and latter.
- Compiler/binutils for kernel compilation

<Quick install with proper kernel settings>
Check whether the built-in driver, r8169.ko (or r8169.o for kernel 2.4.x), is installed.
# lsmod | grep r8169

If it is installed, please remove it.
# rmmod r8169
note: If the built-in driver cannot removed by rmmod, please edit /etc/modprobe.conf and comment 'alias eth0 r8169'. Then, remmove it again or reboot your computer.

Unpack the tarball :
# tar vjxf r8168-8.aaa.bb.tar.bz2

Change to the directory:
# cd r8168-8.aaa.bb

If you are running the target kernel, then you should be able to do :

# make all (as root or with sudo)
# depmod -a
# modprobe r8168

You can check whether the driver is loaded by using following commands.

# lsmod | grep r8168
# ifconfig -a

If there is a device name, ethX, shown on the monitor, the linux
driver is loaded. Then, you can use the following command to activate
the ethX.

# ifconfig ethX up


However at the make all commnad (which consists of "clean" & "modules" and "installed" you can see there was a failure at the "modules" step:
edward@edward-server:~$ cd Documents
edward@edward-server:~/Documents$ cd r8168-8.011.00
edward@edward-server:~/Documents/r8168-8.011.00$ sudo make all
[sudo] password for edward:
make -C src/ clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/edward/Documents/r8168-8.011.00/src'
rm -rf *.o *.ko *~ core* .dep* .*.d .*.cmd *.mod.c *.a *.s .*.flags .tmp_versions Module.symvers Modules.symvers *.order
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/edward/Documents/r8168-8.011.00/src'
make -C src/ modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/edward/Documents/r8168-8.011.00/src'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/build SUBDIRS=/src modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic'
scripts/Makefile.build:41: /src/Makefile: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `/src/Makefile'. Stop.
make[2]: *** [_module_/src] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic'
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/edward/Documents/r8168-8.011.00/src'
make: *** [modules] Error 2
edward@edward-server:~/Documents/r8168-8.011.00$

[cariboo]

Instead of going to all the trouble of compiling a network card driver that is already included with the terminal, why not follow this instruction:


Check whether the built-in driver, r8169.ko (or r8169.o for kernel 2.4.x), is installed.
# lsmod | grep r8169

to check if the driver is loaded. the next thing to do is in the same terminal type:


sudo lshw -C network

this will show a listing of your network card's properties, and whether it is detected. If the nic is detected and the driver is loaded with a network cable plugged in between your router and computer type in the same terinal:


sudo dhclient eth0

If you get an ip address you are ready to surf.

Jim

[Bapu]

Instead of going to all the trouble of compiling a network card driver that is already included with the terminal, why not follow this instruction:



to check if the driver is loaded. the next thing to do is in the same terminal type:


sudo lshw -C network

this will show a listing of your network card's properties, and whether it is detected. If the nic is detected and the driver is loaded with a network cable plugged in between your router and computer type in the same terinal:


sudo dhclient eth0

If you get an ip address you are ready to surf.

Jim

Unfortunately as I said above in following their com[ile instruction I removed the driver so as of now the command

sudo lshw -C network
yeilds nothing found.

I know, I know I went too fast. But now how can I get the driver back (hopefully without a re-install)?