Lubuntu 13.10 with a non-pae kernel

[Nio Wiklund]

2013-12-29 00:52, Nio Wiklund skrev:
> 2013-12-29 00:27, Nio Wiklund skrev:
>> Phill Whiteside	wrote 6:57pm Dec 27:
>>
>>> Hi Folks, well you know me I've been working quietly to get a non-pae
>>> kernel build for lubuntu 13.10 to happen. Lubuntu has done community
>>> respins in the past. This was a little more difficult as it needed an
>>> MOTU who is not a kernel person to actually build the kernel and then
>>> another good guy to make a respin. Please do give a try of
>>>
>>> http://phillw.net/isos/non-pae/
>>>
>>> if this works, we may be able to > expand.,,
>>>
>>
>> Back from Christmas celebration, I have run Joern's non-pae build of
>> Lubuntu 13.10 live in an IBM Thinkpad T42 without a pae flag. The CPU is
>> a Pentium M, so it is relevant for that catergory of CPUs (without a pae
>> flag, but with pae capability).
>>
>>
>> 1. It runs as it should (with zram etc, except that there is only the
>> guest user, so I cannot run sudo). Anyway it is good as a test, that the
>> kernel works without a pae flag :-)
>>
>> (I checked with md5sum that both of you Joern and Phill have uploaded
>> the same version, the one I tested.)
>>
>>
>> 2. Can *you* try to run it in a computer with a pre Pentium II CPU?
>> (without PAE capability, so that fake-PAE won't help)
>>
>>
>> 3. Is there some particular feature or program or task, that should be
>> tested?
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>> Nio
>>
> 
> I could not install it into my IBM Thinkpad T42. It crashed at a rather
> late stage (after downloading files, during installation of the system)
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1264762
> 
> Best regards
> Nio
> 
Now I have installed the kernel via hyperair's ppa into an already
installed system Lubuntu 13.10 system (in a USB 3 pendrive).

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hyperair/staging

It runs, but the wired network won't connect in my new Toshiba with an
i5 processor:

linux-image-3.11.0.12-generic works like it should
linux-image-3.11.0.15-generic-nonpae works but has no wired network

I can check in another computer, for example the Thinkpad with Pentium M
... It works, including the network :-)

I wonder why the wired network won't work with this non-pae kernel in
the modern computer (the Toshiba was bought in April 2013).

It is the same problem in a Toshiba from 2010 with a Realtek ethernet
card (that has 'always' worked with various linux versions). But the
kernel works in a computer with an ASUS M2N-VM DVI mobo and a built-in
nvidia ethernet chip from 2008. Maybe there is a problem with the driver
for some Realtek chips/cards.

Best regards
Nio