[sclug] Help! with Ubuntu 8.04 (cont)

[Neil Haughton]

I have now! There are "symlinks to block devices" for all the other
partitions, but not the sba5 partition.

Regards,

Neil.

Dominic Storey wrote:
> have you checked the following device files?
>
> ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
>
> certainly on Gutsy and Fiesty, there are symlinks here that resolve
> uuids to 'traditional' disks (hda, hdb, etc.)
>
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> On 27 Apr 2008, at 14:03, Neil Haughton wrote:
>
>> Okay, with all the help (thanks Alex, David, Will) I'm making progress.
>> I have my data partition back (it was libata after all, and the hd
>> devices are now sd devices. Easy to deal with once I had been pointed in
>> the right direction - and yes I have also straightened out the mounting
>> and symlinks to something more sensible too: /mnt/sda5 mounts /dev/sda5.
>> Neat, huh? :-)
>>
>> BUT: vol_id /dev/sda5 gives:
>>
>> sudo vol_id /dev/sda5
>> ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem
>> ID_FS_TYPE=reiserfs
>> ID_FS_VERSION=3.6
>> ID_FS_UUID=
>> ID_FS_UUID_ENC=
>> ID_FS_LABEL=
>> ID_FS_LABEL_ENC=
>> ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE=
>>
>> As you can see, no UUID. If I want to 'fit in' by using a UUID to be
>> consistent, what do I do to give it one? Is it worth it?
>>
>>
>> My next big task is to get the wireless adapter (Netgear WG311v3)
>> working - it was fine in 7.10, but now wireless is well and truly
>> broken. I've been through all the Ubuntu docs on this subject with no
>> success. The best I got to was 'wlan0 is ready' in the messages log but
>> it still didn't work - couldn't even ping my router even though it could
>> be found by scanning. I have now done a clean install of 8.04 (that's
>> where my data partition came in really useful to avoid having to do
>> endless back/restores of my data), but my wireless card hasn't even been
>> detected. Should it really still be this hard to get wireless working
>> release after release? It hurts and worries me to say this, but this is
>> one (perhaps the only one?) area where Window XP is miles ahead in terms
>> of the user experience.
>>
>> I can see that ReiserFS perhaps wasn't the best choice of FS. If I copy
>> it to another drive, use the partitioner to change the fs to say jfs,
>> then copy everything back, that should be okay, shouldn't it?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Nei
>>
>> Neil.
>>
>>
>>
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