RotherhamN
November 15th, 2014, 09:04 PM
After being pestered about the upgrade for a few months, I finally relented and went ahead. I wish I hadn't. The upgrade appeared to go smoothly enough, but when I went back in after the reboot, I noticed that not only did it take much longer, but there were a number of system errors (which I duly reported). Now that the kernel has been upgraded, I can no longer compile the realtek wireless card driver and thus could not connect to the internet without plugging directly into my hub. After finding a post on this site I downloaded a .gz file and followed the instructions. The first time I executed the required make and make install commands, the driver was built - but upon entering the modprobe command, no connection was established. I re-booted and after experiencing and reporting more system errors, it seemed slower still. This time I re-built the driver, but the make install command hung and the whole thing ground to a halt. I am writing this from windows on the same machine as Ubuntu is now of no use. This is a real shame.
Has anyone else had a similar experience? Is there a "cure"? If not, it would appear that the latest version of Ubuntu is of little use on any hardware having a realtech network card. Even with a direct connection performance is decidedly slow and there seem to be lots of errors.
Has anyone else had a similar experience? Is there a "cure"? If not, it would appear that the latest version of Ubuntu is of little use on any hardware having a realtech network card. Even with a direct connection performance is decidedly slow and there seem to be lots of errors.