Comment 11 for bug 52679

I've had the same problem on my laptop (Mac iBook G3 600MHz). I initially installed Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 on my laptop with kernel 2.6.15.23-powerpc and although the kernel has been updated it appears that the symlinks at /boot/vmlinux and /boot/initrd.img were not updated so I have stayed with the same kernel.

I was completely unaware of this until upgrading to Ubuntu Edgy 6.10. After which the network wasn't properly initialised on start up. I've had to manually initialise it each time I restart.

However, after spending the day trawling the Ubuntu forums I came across this bug and updated the symlinks. Now my network works fine on start up which is a major relief.

I note this here, because I imagine this issue has affected a lot of other power pc users, who may not be aware that this bug is the cause of their loss of network connectivity.

I hope you are able to resolve this bug in future. Many thanks for your help.

William