Feisty Meta physics

[Derek Broughton]

Carl Spitzer wrote:

> Now for the third time I have reinstalled ubuntu gnome version.
> Though I did a total clean install formatting /home also a wireless
> connection is seen as wired and thereby makes the internet inaccessible.
> 
> The only difference between now and the first time is /home is a
> separate partition.  is Ubuntu wedded to the all in one partition with
> swap on the side?

I don't quite see what you're asking.  Certainly, Ubuntu doesn't care how
many partitions you have, and I always have (at least) /home on its own
partition.  Also, /home can have no effect at all on your network
interfaces.

Try removing /etc/iftab (or at least commenting out everything in it).  When
I installed Feisty, it (a) completely blacklisted my wired NIC and (b) made
the default wireless interface (eth1) look wired.  Fortunately, since I had
assumed (perhaps wrongly) that my broadcom wireless needed ndiswrapper, I
had installed that and got another interface on wlan0.

> Also I was before installing the KDE stuff which is also on the dvd but
> now the package manager does not see it.

Did you actually _install_ from that DVD?  /etc/apt/sources.list is built
with a pointer to the disc from which it was installed.  Otherwise you need
to add your DVD there.
-- 
derek