Comments on: Karmic Koala network fail

By: Jo

Jo — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:50:26 +0000

my recommendation for the problem with your external harddrive, just simply install ntfs-3g, and it will mount your hdd automatically. And one more thing to do, try to cleanup your external hdd in windows, this will do the thing that should be done.

By: anggiarto

anggiarto — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:26:21 +0000

Karmic is very powerful once you get it working, but if you can’t access the internet with it then it’s very discouraging (the use of the ‘crippled’ word might be too harsh in this case).

Also in my case, it never seemed to recognise any external hard drive that is not mounted on boot. So if you plug your external drive in while you’re running Karmic, it won’t recognise me. I don’t know, maybe it’s just me. I have an NTFS-formatted Seagate 320GB.

By: Asterix

Asterix — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:19:48 +0000

It unfair to call Karmic a crippled OS. I have installed it on no less than 3 laptops and 4 desktops with no problem at all. It worked perfectly for me.

By: Pd

Pd — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:55:41 +0000

Well, I’m not sure you actually managed to debunk it, in fact you just demonstrated that the ‘fail’ exists.

Now, can someone debunk the ‘fail’ which exists for 3g usb mobile broadband users ? Not that it’ll be much use to them, since as they don’t have networking in the first place they won’t be able to read the debunk, or find any fix, etc.

By: Fr33d0m

Fr33d0m — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:38:19 +0000

Interestingly I had similar issues that were fixed by the OpenDNS settings. That was the first install.

I had several other self imposed problems and ended up reinstalling. This time I didn’t have the network problem–magically.

I didn’t learn my lesson the first time and had a couple more reinstalls and each time I didn’t have to fix anything. Each time I reformatted the drives to make sure nothing stayed behind.

I don’t know if that all applies to your issue and I don’t know why I didn’t have the network issue after each reinstall–I used the same CD each time. Still it might be worth a try.