Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope - Review

About the network bug, I had posted this as a solution at the Ubuntu forum, I discovered the workaround when I started using 8.10. All you do is delete existing detected connections namely autoeth0 1 etc. and setup a new account, click on the system tab as well, give a new name, give your static IP, DNS etc. and save, it will ask for password, make that persistent and network manager works out fine.

 

Another option is to use wicd instead or manually edit the interfaces config file.
Mrk

 

I found this one on the ubuntu forums, it did the trick for me;

1) sudo update-rc.d -f NetworkManager remove (remove NetworkManager links)

2)reboot

3)ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.10
route add default gw 10.0.0.2 (gateway)

4)echo "10.0.0.2" >> /etc/resolv.conf
If you want to start the NetworkManager again, this could be used;
5)sudo update-rc.d NetworkManager defaults

Instead of step 3 one could use; sudo dhclient eth0

I hadn't seen your solution Arup, i wil try that out as well, thanks.

Lamehand

 

Hello,

The solution given on the forums assumes a lot:

1. that you use 10.x.x.x subnet as your private ip
2. that you use private ip a.k.a. have a router
3. that your dns and gateway are identical

Might not be applicable for all.

Like I said, you can manually edit the configuration files ... but this requires knowing what to do.

If you have the bug - not all do - then try wicd; I've even written a little tutorial, but since it's one of 40+ in the pipe, I'll upload it in a few days/weeks.

If you have questions how to setup wicd, do ask, I'll try to be as helpful as possible ...

Cheers,
Mrk

 

Hi Mrk

I have exectly that setup as discribed in the solution, but i've tried it by manually editing the config files aswell, that worked also.

I will look into wicd

greetz
Lamehand

 

Of course you can't save a static IP with a LiveCD. Where is it going to save the change when it can't write to the CD? Even if you use'd a re-writeable CD, LiveCDs can't write changes to them.

 

Doesn't it keep the changes you've made for the duration of the livecd session stored in ram?

Lamehand

 

Live CD loads config in RAM and doesn't write anything to disk.

 

WICD does not work for me. I can get it to "connect" but I can't get online.

 

I've installed 8.10 in a virtual machine just to test wicd.

1)download 'wicd_1.5.9_all.deb' from http://wicd.sourceforge.net
2)remove NetworkManager with the packet manager from 8.10.
3)Install wicd with GDebi
4)reboot.

After this network-connection was/is in working order, problem solved for the time being.

greetz
Lamehand

 

Took the plunge and installed the Beta and so far so good.

Got a fast torrent and downloaded the lot in 70 minutes.

I'm installing the updates now.

Partition manager worked a treat and I've got a nice, new home partition.

Was always afraid to experiment with the partitions in previous versions of Ubuntu.

Is it my imagination or has the default font rendering really improved?



Looks like a winner!

 

Gave six Gb. to /, three Gb. to the Swap which is a little excessive considering that I've only got one Gb. ram and the rest went to /home.

 

I'm really impressed with JJ. It's got to be the best Ubuntu release that I've tried and I've had them all since FF.

It runs really well, I've got ext 4 in / and ext 3 in my home folder.

Not only does it run well but it looks great also.

Well done Ubuntu developers!

 

Installed the daily build tonight and am impressed. This one is very fast. I boot to the login prompt in 15 seconds here. Nothing I've used before has been this fast, in either Win or Linux. Shutdown is super fast too. Also everything else seems quick/fast, app loading, file copy, all of it. Very nice overall, as expected.

 

To the guy having network problems, you might have to edit /etc/network/interfaces manually if network manager is not properly "managing" dhcp.

Look here for what to do.

NOTE: this is probably only a viable solution if you are NAT'ed behind a router OR if your ISP gives you a static IP. Otherwise you would have to reconfigure each time your IP changes.

 

Kerodo, just wondering if you're using Ext 4 on your /home partition and if so is working well for you?

 

I have ext4 for my home and other partitions, works out quite well, no issues at all.

 

Nope, not using ext4 here yet. I will probably reinstall everything after final release, and then decide which I want for good. I'm still a bit undecided.

 

Hmm, might give it a bash in my home partition as well and go the whole hog including the postage.

ty

 

@chronomatic

I guess you mean me?

I solved the problems with installing wicd, i've dropped NetworkManager from this machine, i couldn't create a static IP with it.
I've been running with wicd for a couple of days now, with a static IP, and the troubles seem to be over.

I am not sure, but i think it has something to do with NetworkManager, it started giving trouble (for me) in ubuntu 8.10.
Anyway thanks for the suggestion.

greetings