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It's been over a year since I first wrote in this thread (my first forum ever), and it's been a while since I last wrote. I've been doing fine by simply replacing the r8169 driver with Realtek's own...

Thanks for the reply, LHammond. I may well use those resources in the future.

I so often find that it's the intuitive stuff--or things that were meant to be intuitive--that I have trouble with.
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Re: 12.04 server installation; LVM difficulties - RESOLVED


With the impetus of your message, Darko, I reinstalled Ubuntu Server 12.04.


I missed A LOT in my first installation.


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Thank you for your replies, darkod and rubylaser,

I will indeed do a new installation because I think it will be quicker and more direct,

When I was doing the installation from the 12.04 Server...

12.04 server installation; LVM difficulties


First of all, I apologize for shifting the topic of this thread, but I have to do that because I have less than 25 postings.


Last week I...

I just thought that I'd narrate my experiences here. I had the same problem as the thread originator (peterson43). I couldn't start any LibreOffice program. When clicked, the LibreOffice icon would...

I have been using the Brother HL-4150CDN for a couple of months now, printing from Ubuntu 12.04, 11.10, and 10.10. I agree that the paper tray is on the flimsy side; I make sure to load the paper...

Thanks for your reply, Praseodym. Yes, my update worked but, no, I have never had any success with the r8169 driver.

Today I dealt with Update Manager's kernel updates (3.2.0-29-generic; I was...

Thank you, Praseodym, for your posting and for the opportunity to dust off my German a bit! In fact I'm using the 64-bit version of 12.04 but I don't think that's a factor because I had the identical...

Re: 11.10 wired network problem

On the weekend Update Manager on my Asus F1A75-M computer wanted to update the kernel to 3.2.0-27. I knew that I would have an Ethernet failure at the end of that...

I just upgraded a machine that was running Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04. Everything went well though after the upgrade my motherboard eth0 connection, the one using the RealTek RTL8111 Ethernet controller,...

Thanks, Varun, for the advice. I went to the thread that you indicated.

I commented out all but the first two lines in /etc/network/interfaces and that calmed down my Ethernet connection....

Thank you, Varun. Your answer is helpful.

I was wondering about conflicts between NetworkManager and manual configuration and I appreciate your addressing this point. I will look at this more over...

My previous posting was for my computer that runs Ubuntu 12.04.

I put off updating my P8Z68-M computer, running Ubuntu 11.10 with kernel 3.0 (because I knew the update had a kernel update:...

In this thread about RealTek's RTL8111 Ethernet controller and drivers r8168 and r8169, there are several posting from and to me. My driver issue lasted three months, but I believe that it is now...

Thank you, the two of you, Tim and firekage. My Ethernet works and I can go on the Internet also.

The magic trick was in NetworkManager.conf. I needed managed=true (it was false).

So I have my...

Thank you Tim for your posting.

I especially appreciate your answer to my second question about other Linux distros and the r8169 driver.

After I made my posting and before I read your posting,...

For the last three months, since installing Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04, I have experienced a sequence of breakdowns with my motherboard Ethernet controllers on two different computers. I have been on...

Further to my posting of #36, I should say that each time I update the kernel, I have to run the commands again.

There's no problem doing this, but I am hoping that this issue will be resolved...

This solution works! Thank you! I tried various suggestions on several sites but only the steps that Varun posted in #30 finally solved the problem for me.

Because I don't use wireless, I instead...