On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:56:43 +0100, Andrew Woodward wrote:

>>> So did I! When I bought a new laptop and installed Kubuntu it stopped
>>> working. I went from scratching my head to tearing my hair out
>>> Eventually, installing a different network card driver cured the
>>> problem. Go figure...

>> Heh. Yeah. The new laptop uses a different ethernet adapter than your
>> old laptop, and you wouldn't think it would need a different driver?
>>
>> Of course it needs a different driver. Duh.

> Yes - but the sky2 driver that was installed with Kubuntu 7.10 worked fine
> with a directly wired connection at 100mbps, but *didn't* work with the
> HomePlug at 10mbps. To get the ethernet connector working with both I had
> to replace the driver with the sk98lin version.

That's a completely different thing than what you said originally, which
was that replacing a *laptop* required a different driver than the
previous laptop. What you just described clearly indicates an issue with
this "HomePlug" contraption, not with the sky2 ethernet driver.


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