<div dir="ltr">Hi Michael and everybody else<div><br></div><div>Maybe my dissing of the Shuttle PC was too general. To be specific the model in question is the XS35GTV2.</div><div><br></div><div>The wired ethernet drivers are from Jmicron - the issue in question is well-described in this link:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/880316">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/880316</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>and you might notice that I submitted a (hacked) patch to make it work. This bug was in all distros - </div>
<div>interestingly openelec seemed to work... The patch only worked for one or two releases before the kernel API</div></div><div>changed in an incompatible way.</div><div><br></div><div>In Ubuntu 14.04 the wired ethernet still did not work although the drivers were meant to be fixed. Googling</div>
<div>revealed that some had fixed this by issuing a suitable ethtool command (see comment #37 in the launchpad link).</div><div><br></div><div>When I executed ethtool the wired ethernet came alive. Interestingly I have never needed to do it again even across cold reboots - some users have put the ethtool (with suitable args) in rc.local but I have never needed to.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I thought that this was the end to my problems - however when doing a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 the graphical installer would freeze at random - keyboard, mouse, Xwindows, and ssh were unusable. Again googling revealed that others had experienced this - see</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2083144">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2083144</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>This appeared to be a nouveau problem. I got around this by installing the Nvidia drivers from the terminal window before starting the installation. -1 to ubuntu for using a graphical installer.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The system now randomly blanks the monitor and no amount of keypressing or mouse movement will get rid of the black screen. Either my monitor is broken or the Shuttle PC on 14.04 is not good. I have tried turning off power management and dpms to no avail.</div>
<div><br></div><div>All of which is a pity because the XS35GTV2 is a beautifully-engineered completely silent PC.</div><div><br></div><div>It is for sale if anybody is interested.:-)</div><div><br></div><div>So that is 3 problems. Combine this with a previous Shuttle PC experience led me to *not* recommend Shuttle.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Others may have different experiences - YMMV. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Paul</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 August 2014 08:34, michael norman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michaeltnorman@gmail.com" target="_blank">michaeltnorman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On 04/08/14 06:20, Paul Hewlett wrote:<br>
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I have been using a raspberry pi with xbmc with some success. However<br>
the interface is very laggy and have been investigating a replacement<br>
recently. I also have a shuttle PC but would not recommend it as the<br>
wired Ethernet drivers for Linux are problematic.<br>
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Don't understand this, I have a shuttle pc running Linux Mint 17 and openSUSE 12.3. I have never had any problem with etherenet. It has always "just worked" What do you mean by "wired Ethernet Drivers of Linux" ?<div class="HOEnZb">
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