Canyon USB Adapter (Liam Proven)

Sat May 15 19:38:36 UTC 2010

Thanks Liam, I tried that with no success but then changed router and works fine. Netopia router is fine, Zyxel has problem for me.. i may just use the netopia router now.. 

Regards,

Alan.
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 1. Re: Upgrading (steve reilly)
 2. Re: Upgrading (Tom H)
 3. Re: Upgrading (Tom H)
 4. Re: Xubuntu upgrade (Arthur Johnson)
 5. Canyon USB Adapter (Alan Duke)
 6. Re: Xubuntu upgrade (Tom H)
 7. Re: Canyon USB Adapter (Liam Proven)
 8. Re: GRUB problem after upgrading to 10.04 (Tom H)
 9. Re: Upgrading (steve reilly)
 10. Re: Why is it looking for /root/dev ? (Tom H)

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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 15:01:14 -0400
From: steve reilly <sfreilly at roadrunner.com>
Subject: Re: Upgrading
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
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Karl Larsen wrote:
> My entire Linux experience has been installing the new version. I 
> have version 8.05 on my computer and for a learning experience I would 
> like to upgrade it to 8.10. How do you do this? I use sudo aptitiude 
> upgrade all the time to upgrade the current system. How do I get it to 
> upgrade to another version?
> 
> 73 Karl
> 
> ps: I checked all my books. They do not cover this
> 
> 

Ive always used sudo update-manager -d

the d switch has update-manager look for new distributions. their are 
other ways to do this, see here http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading

PS. 8.04 can go directly to 10.04. Im not aware of an 8.05. unless 
maybe you meant 8.04.5?

steve

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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 15:03:42 -0400
From: Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Upgrading
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My entire Linux experience has been installing the new version. I
> have version 8.05 on my computer and for a learning experience I would
> like to upgrade it to 8.10. How do you do this? I use sudo aptitiude
> upgrade all the time to upgrade the current system. How do I get it to
> upgrade to another version?

At the cli and if you were going from 9.10 to 10.04:
$ sudo aptitude update
$ sudo aptitude full-upgrade
$ sudo do-release-upgrade -m desktop
but I think that "do-release-upgrade" (and its GUI equivalent) will
upgrade you to the latest version not from one old (albeit an LTS one)
to another old version.

You should be able to upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04 with the above
though. I would not feel comfortable doing so on a desktop though; on
a server, possibly, although I have spent the weekend upgrading some
servers from 8.04 and 9.04 to 10.04 by rebuilding the OS from scratch.

You could upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 with aptitude too but it is not a
one-step process.

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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 15:05:36 -0400
From: Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Upgrading
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
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On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 3:01 PM, steve reilly <sfreilly at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>> My entire Linux experience has been installing the new version. I
>> have version 8.05 on my computer and for a learning experience I would
>> like to upgrade it to 8.10. How do you do this? I use sudo aptitiude
>> upgrade all the time to upgrade the current system. How do I get it to
>> upgrade to another version?
>
> Ive always used sudo update-manager -d
>
> the d switch has update-manager look for new distributions. their are
> other ways to do this, see here ?http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading

For the who-knows-what-time, "-d" upgrades you to the latest
development release!

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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 15:06:18 -0400
From: Arthur Johnson <arthur.johnson at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Xubuntu upgrade
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
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pat,

you fill be fine. xubuntu, lubuntu, kubuntu, ubuntu are all the same
distro. it will recognize the packages u have installed and upgrade
everything. I've had all installed at the same time before, in fact.

the difference is just what is loaded by default. all the ubuntus
co-exist without problems.

On 5/2/10, Patrick Newberry <PNewberry at habitat.org> wrote:
> I wanted to do a distribution upgrade ( going from Harding to Lucid) but I
> run Xubuntu (xfce) ... not the gnome Ubuntu desk top.
> When the distribution upgrade starts it just says Ubuntu on the upgrade not
> Xubuntu.
>
> I was using these instructions below:
> I assume it will keep my xfce desk top correct?
>
>
> Upgrade from 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS
> Network Upgrade for Ubuntu Desktops (Recommended)
> You can easily upgrade over the network with the following procedure.
>
> 1. Press Alt-F2 and type update-manager --devel-release
> 2. Click the Check button to check for new updates.
> 3. If there are any updates to install, use the Install Updates button to
> install them, and press Check again after that is complete.
> 4. A message will appear informing you of the availability of the new
> release.
> 5. Click Upgrade.
> 6. Follow the on-screen instructions.
>
>
> Thanks
> Pat.
>
> [cid:image001.png at 01CAEA06.8A3653C0]
>
>

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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 20:09:43 +0200
From: "Alan Duke" <Alan.Duke at gmx.com>
Subject: Canyon USB Adapter
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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?Hi,
New to Ubuntu.. I have upgraded to 10.04 from 9.10 hoping that my USB wifi adapter will work 100%.. I can see all available Access Pts in my area and when I attempt to connect to my one I enter the password but it will not accept it after a min or so.. WPA2 on the router. When I remove the password encryption from the router it will connect fine so I know it works.. is it an encryption password thing? My adapter is a Canyon CNP-WF518N2. The canyon website offer a linux driver but it was tested on Fedora and i can't get it to work. Anyone out there that can help would be great. 

Alan.
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 15:08:59 -0400
From: Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Xubuntu upgrade
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On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Patrick Newberry <PNewberry at habitat.org> wrote:
>
> I ?wanted to do a distribution upgrade ( going from Harding to Lucid) but I run Xubuntu (xfce) ? not the gnome Ubuntu desk top.
>
> When the distribution upgrade starts it just says Ubuntu on the upgrade not Xubuntu.
>
> I was using these instructions below:
>
> I assume it will keep my xfce desk top correct?
>
> Upgrade from 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS
>
> Network Upgrade for Ubuntu Desktops (Recommended)
>
> You can easily upgrade over the network with the following procedure.
>
> Press Alt-F2 and type update-manager?--devel-release
> Click the Check button to check for new updates.
> If there are any updates to install, use the Install Updates button to install them, and press Check again after that is complete.
> A message will appear informing you of the availability of the new release.
> Click Upgrade.
> Follow the on-screen instructions.

I would certainly hope that if you have xubuntu-desktop for 8.04 that
you will end up with xubuntu-desktop for 10.04!

You might want to skip the "--devel-release" part of the command...

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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 20:11:55 +0100
From: Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Canyon USB Adapter
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
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On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Alan Duke <Alan.Duke at gmx.com> wrote:
> ?Hi,
>
> New to Ubuntu.. I have upgraded to 10.04 from 9.10 hoping that my USB wifi
> adapter will work 100%..? I can see all available Access Pts in my area and
> when I attempt to connect to my one I enter the password but it will not
> accept it after a min or so..? WPA2 on the router.? When I remove the
> password encryption from the router it will connect fine so I know it
> works.. is it an encryption password thing?? My adapter is a Canyon
> CNP-WF518N2.? The canyon website offer a linux driver but it was tested on
> Fedora and i can't get it to work.? Anyone out there that can help would be
> great.
>
> Alan.

Can you try a different encryption system?

It's also worth checking to see if you have more than one different
encryption method enabled, and if so, disable all but one, ideally,
leaving the latest and most secure. I've seen this confuse Linux boxes
before.

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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 15:13:54 -0400
From: Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: GRUB problem after upgrading to 10.04
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On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Goh Lip <g.lip at gmx.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2 May 2010 13:36:50 -0400
> Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Pre-Karmic running grub-install on a partition would fail. I think (I
>> have not tried it since October 2009 this is what I understand from
>> posts here) that you now can but get a warning message.
>>
> No, Tom. I had been installing OS grub to its own partition both in
> grub-legacy and grub2 for some time now, as I had a separate grub
> partition. And yes, grub2 warning is particularly severe.
>
> The main thing is that there must be one grub that must be "set" to mbr
> and/or the separate hard drive or external and that is always /dev/sda
> and/or /dev/sdc never /dev/sda3 or /dev/sdc1.

By pre-Karmic, I meant grub2 pre-Karmic (the Karmic alphas and betas)
not grub1. Sorry about the lack of precision in the expression!

When I run dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc", I have the options to install
grub to /dev/sda and /dev/sda1. I do not have a test install on which
to try it but, if I choose /dev/sda1, will it fail or will I just get
a warning that it is a bad thing before it is executed?

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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 15:20:17 -0400
From: steve reilly <sfreilly at roadrunner.com>
Subject: Re: Upgrading
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
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Tom H wrote:
> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 3:01 PM, steve reilly <sfreilly at roadrunner.com> wrote:
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>> My entire Linux experience has been installing the new version. I
>>> have version 8.05 on my computer and for a learning experience I would
>>> like to upgrade it to 8.10. How do you do this? I use sudo aptitiude
>>> upgrade all the time to upgrade the current system. How do I get it to
>>> upgrade to another version?
>> Ive always used sudo update-manager -d
>>
>> the d switch has update-manager look for new distributions. their are
>> other ways to do this, see here http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading
> 
> For the who-knows-what-time, "-d" upgrades you to the latest
> development release!
> 

point taken. correction.. use -c for a release upgrade.

steve

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Message: 10
Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 15:37:07 -0400
From: Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Why is it looking for /root/dev ?
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On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Mike Yates <ubuntu at fonehelp.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 2 May 2010 00:29:41 -0400 Tom H wrote:
>> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Mike Yates<ubuntu at fonehelp.co.uk> ?wrote:
>>
>>> I've upgraded my 9.10 to 10.04 on-line but it will only work with the
>>> older kernel (2.6.31-21) not 2.6.32-21, which locks up completely while
>>> attempting to start a recovery shell (busybox started but no prompt).
>>> Among the messages above that are three curious ones, failing to find
>>> /root/dev, /root/proc and /root/sys, also "no /sbin/init.007".
>>> As I said, switching to the older kernel, with all the same arguments on
>>> the same filesystem, works perfectly.
>>> Is the initrd corrupt?
>>> I've tried "apt-get install --reinstall linux-image-2.6.32-21-generic"
>>> to no avail.
>>>
>> No idea what "no /sbin/init.007" means but the "/root/..." messages
>> mean to me that your initrd is not mounting your partition(s) and it
>> is therefore failing when it tries to move them at the end of its
>> scripts (init-bottom IIRC).
>>
>> Are you using lvm or mdadm?
>>
>> The "... reiinstall ..." should have had the same effect but you
>> should also try deleting and recreating your initrd with
>> "update-initramfs -d ..." and "update-initramfs -c ...".
>>
> Well, Tom, the recreate of initrd ran OK but the same error occurred.
> Although usually just after Busybox started, it sometimes froze at
> different times
> and in these, other messages were visible, such as "not yet mounted, use
> bootdelay".
> Before trying that grub parameter, I took a good look at /etc/fstab and
> found that the root partition was type ext4 (perhaps slower mounting in
> v2.6.32 ??) and that it was at line 34 of the file because I had sorted
> my many testing drives and partitions into physical order (/ =
> /dev/sdb5) and there were lots of installation comments.
>
> So, I just moved the root-mounting line of /etc/fstab to the top and
> it's fixed !!
>
> I'm still curious about those messages I received. Perhaps there's
> something historical about putting dev under root but I've been using
> Linux since 1993 and I've never seen it.
> The number appended to /sbin/init seems to be random, init.6700 last
> time, so perhaps an "artifact" of "rootless messaging", but a little
> worrying perhaps.

Line 34! I am not sure whether rootdelay is meant for such a case but maybe...

The root in /root/dev, etc is not the final /root.

When the initrd "boots" it mounts /dev, etc and before passing control
to the kernel, these mounts are moved to something like (I would have
to unpack my initrd to check the exact variable) ${root}/dev, etc or
${rootmount}/dev, etc so the /root/dev, etc errors seem somewhat
inaccurate but the reason is clear, ${root} or ${rootmount} (or
whatever the correct invocation is) is not available so /dev, etc
cannot be moved over.

The /sbin/init message is also puzzling because AFAIK init is at /init
not /sbin/init in the initrd unless it is referring to the actual
init...

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