[Wolves] I installed kubuntu recently BUT.............

[Adam Sweet]

--- Bobby Singh <bs_wm at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I will have a go at that 'Ping command' soon and let
> people know how i get on.
> If that don't work i may try downloading drivers for
> my sound card (realteak) and ethernet (VIA Rhine)
> for
> internet.

Normally with Linux you don't have to download any
drivers, if they work then they are built into the
kernel. I am pretty certain that your ethernet card
and sound card are supported. I have a Realtek card
(maybe a different model) and it works, though you may
have an unsupported variant. I am pretty certain that
Via Rhine cards are supported too.

> I use Mandrake mainly and it autoconfigs
> everything and assumed so would Kubuntu.
> (on booting kubuntu it does complain about unable to
> load '/lib' files 'don't exsist').

Ubuntu and Kubuntu should automatically detect all
supported hardware but...

To me, that sounds really bad, but I might be wrong.
Your kernel modules live under /lib, usually in
/lib/modules/<kernel-name>/kernel/ (in Ubuntu at
least) so this might be why you're having problems.

I don't know why this might have happened. It
shouldn't. Maybe a dying hard disk but you would get
other more worrying messages to do with your hard
disks. If you understand Linux disk naming conventions
you will know what to look for, if you don't, either
ask or google for it. It's relatively easy. /dev/hda
is your primary master hard disk on an normal ATA IDE
controller /dev/hda1 is the first partition on that
disk, /dev/hdb2 is the second partition on the primary
slave disk and so on. For SCSI, serial ATA and USB
drives, change the 'h' for an 's'.

Look for errors about /dev/hdX where X is the name of
your disk a, b, c, d or whatever. Look in the
following files using the following commands on the
command line:

dmesg | less
less /var/log/messages
less /var/log/kern.log

You can filter this for your hard disk name by using
grep and your hard disk name, if your disk is /dev/hdb
(primary slave), add | grep /dev/hdb to the end of
each of the above like so:

less /var/log/messages | grep /dev/hdb

but have a look at them unfiltered too so you can also
look for more about the /lib errors.

This may also have been caused by an incomplete
installation or bad install media, but if it were a
bad CD then I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have installed
the rest of the system.

Can you paste here a sample of the lib errors and any
other errors that look interesting (such as disk
errors). It may help us diagnose whats wrong.

It may also be worth your while using google to search
for information on your errors if any. Just paste what
looks like the important bit into google. Thats all
I'll be doing.

HTH

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