I've tried googling your apparent compiling issue and from what I can find it seems pretty unique... You may wish to try filing a bug report to the ubuntu team. But I'm stumped, it seems quite bizarre.<br><br>Have you tried running Wireless Assistant from the command line, to see what errors that spits out? What kind of wireless card do you have?<br><br><b><i>Rich Colquhoun <clearnitesky@yahoo.co.uk></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Well it looks like all of those kernels are the same... which kernel headers package do you have installed?<br><br><b><i>Stephen Constantinou <stephanos@writeme.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Dear Rich<br><br>Thanks for the interest. I know the route/gateway and DNS settings but <br>cannot set them as KNetworkManager's Manual configuration
is not <br>appearing. I cannot connect to the Internet with CAT5 either.<br><br>Although I boot directly into a user, (version 2.6.24-16)I studied the <br>grub boot loader and have many options<br>Ubuntu 8.04. Kernel 2.6.24-16-generic<br>Ubuntu 8.04. Kernel 2.6.24-16-generic (recovery mode)<br>Ubuntu 8.04. Kernel 2.6.24-14-generic<br>Ubuntu 8.04. Kernel 2.6.24-14-generic (recovery mode)<br>Ubuntu 8.04, memtest86+<br><br>I tried the third option: Ubuntu 8.04. Kernel 2.6.24-14-generic<br>The mouse did not work and I got a loud feedback type noise over the <br>speakers that I could not turn off.<br><br>So next I tried: Ubuntu 8.04. Kernel 2.6.24-16-generic (recovery mode)<br>This booted to a memu with three options: resume normal boot, Drop to <br>shell prompt, try to fix X server. I was not sure what to do so I <br>resumed normal boot.<br><br>Next was: Ubuntu 8.04. Kernel 2.6.24-14-generic (recovery mode)<br>This booted to a memu with three options: resume normal boot,
Drop to <br>shell prompt, try to fix X server. I was not sure what to do so I <br>resumed normal boot, and got the same feedback noise again<br><br>On screen the message says something about not being able to compile <br>with gcc. I went looking for this package but it was not installed and <br>not available either.<br><br>At a loss and hoping there is something to be done<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Stephen<br>Rich Colquhoun wrote:<br>> It does look as though you've got a conflict between your<br>> kernel headers that are installed and the ones you need for<br>> the kernel you're running. Do you have more than one kernel<br>> option from the boot-up GRUB screen? if so try selecting<br>> the older one...<br>> <br>> Does your connection work if you connect it using a CAT5<br>> cable? <br>> If you're able to access your samba shares then it means<br>> you are connected to the network though, which is a good<br>> start.<br>> Do you know your
route/gateway and DNS settings? on my<br>> system I just set those as the router itself (192.168.1.1)<br>> <br>> arfab<br>> <br>> --- Stephen Constantinou <stephanos@writeme.com> wrote:<br>> <br>>> Dear All<br>>><br>>> I appear to have lost internet connectivity. I was using<br>>> my Ubuntu/KDE<br>>> laptop on an internal network via a switch that connected<br>>> to a<br>>> Smoothwall firewall. It had a static IP. All was well<br>>> and I sometimes<br>>> made a wireless internet connection as well by attaching<br>>> a wireless/4<br>>> port router to the switch. I stopped using wireless for a<br>>> while.<br>>><br>>> I was using KNetworkManger to configure ethernet and<br>>> wireless<br>>> connections. I right click and chose Manual Connections<br>>> to do this.<br>>> Now the interface has stopped appearing and nothing<br>>>
happens.<br>>> The other application I was using was Wireless Assistant<br>>> 0.5.7. When I<br>>> click this it does not start either. Previously I had<br>>> difficulty with<br>>> these applications and I uninstalled and reinstalled<br>>> them. I must have<br>>> retained internet connectivity to be able to do this.<br>>><br>>> During boot up a message to screen alerts me to look at<br>>> /tmp/dgcconfig-building.txt. The contents of which are<br>>> below:<br>>> <content of="" dgcconfig-building.txt=""><br>>> cd /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/build && make<br>>> "CNXT_KERNELSRC=/lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/build"<br>>> "M=/usr/lib/dgcmodem/modules" "CC=gcc" clean)<br>>> make[1]: Entering directory<br>>> `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16-generic'<br>>> make[1]: Leaving directory<br>>> `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16-generic'<br>>> rm -rf *.o
GPL/*.o *.ko GPL/*.ko *.mod.c GPL/*.mod.c<br>>> .*.cmd GPL/.*.cmd<br>>> .tmp_versions .tmp_versions<br>>><br>> /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/build/.tmp_versions/dgcusbdcp.mod<br>>> Modules.symvers GPL/hda/Modules.symvers<br>>> (cd /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/build && make<br>>> "CNXT_KERNELSRC=/lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/build"<br>>> "M=/usr/lib/dgcmodem/modules" "CC=gcc" modules)<br>>> make[1]: Entering directory<br>>> `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16-generic'<br>>> scripts/Makefile.build:46: *** CFLAGS was changed in<br>>> "/usr/lib/dgcmodem/modules/Makefile". Fix it to use<br>>> EXTRA_CFLAGS. Stop.<br>>> make[1]: *** [_module_/usr/lib/dgcmodem/modules] Error 2<br>>> make[1]: Leaving directory<br>>> `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16-generic'<br>>> make: *** [all] Error 2<br>>> </content><br>>><br>>> With no internet connectivity I did not
want to uninstall<br>>> those<br>>> applications as I would not be able to reinstall. I<br>>> purchased the<br>>> laptop pre installed with Ubuntu 7.1 and since then it<br>>> had an online<br>>> upgrade to 8.?. This is my first attempt to use wireless<br>>> since the<br>>> upgrade to 8.?<br>>><br>>> However, smb://dell/c in Konqueror still connects me to<br>>> the file system<br>>> of the windows machine on the network.<br>>><br>>> Any help appreciated<br>>><br>>> Stephen<br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> SWLUG Discussion List - Discuss@swlug.org<br>>> http://swlug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss<br>>><br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> __________________________________________________________<br>> Sent from Yahoo! Mail.<br>> A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html<br>>
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