NC10 No Network Manager Service in Ubuntu 8.10 and missing LAN
Those who tried to set up Ubuntu with working WLAN on the Samsung NC10 already know how to do it. There are plenty guides outside. But for someone who is not that much in the stuff its a misterious when neither LAN nor WLAN works and the Network Manager denies to startup on boot.
Well, the WLAN Problem is fixed fast and is also works with downloading the three files to install backport from a USB-Drive:
- Disabling the non-working WLAN Driver by System > Hardware-Drivers
- Downloading
this and
this and
that and install it via Terminal by
sudo dpkg -i linux-backports-modules-intrepid_2.6.27.7.11_i386.deb linux-meta/linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic_2.6.27.7.11_i386.deb linux-backports-modules-2.6.27-7-generic_2.6.27-7.4_i386.deb
- Reboot and check.
I had the problem that still neither LAN nor WLAN worked immediately although it was set up right. But when I ran “sudo dhclient” or started the Network Manager manually it worked all fine.
Finding out that someone had a problem in Windows with a non-working WLAN module and the solution to set the MAC-Address in the System-Settings of “Windows XP” worked, I decided to set up the (missing) MAC-Address as well in Ubuntu on the Network settings of eth0 and voilá the Network Manager starts up on boot. Still a misterious to me as I cannot understand why Ubuntu does not set it on its own.
Added: Still problems with autostart of Network Manager.
Final Solution: Got rid of Network Manager and got
Wicd! Works like a charm!