Dapper Flight 5 Install - Networking issues

[Carthik Sharma]

On 3/28/06, Carthik Sharma <carthik at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/28/06, 'Forum Post <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> >
> > Only 300 packages?... i did a dist-upgrade a few days ago and update
> > about 1000+ packages.
> >
> > Other thing, my upgrade failed several times due dependencies errors
> > and I had to solve it by hand doing apt-get install -f when the
> > dist-upgrade stop the proccess. After the first error and until the
> > upgrade were completed my network didn't work. Hope that this point can
> > help you. Ensure that you upgrade all packages correctly.
> >
> > Cheers.
> \
>
> I think you got it all wrong. Without a workinng internet connection,
> I cannot download the packages to complete the update! I installed
> fresh with Dapper Flight 5.
>
> Any suggestion on how to fix my internet connection (ethernet LAN)
> would be  welcome.
>
> Also, please note, this is a fresh Flight CD 5 install. I am just
> worried that Dapper too might not work, since Flight CDs are purposely
> for testing.
> >
For the benefit of anyone else looking into this problem,
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/34219
was the bug, and the suggested fix fixed everything for me.

Carthik.