Hi
A well-soak tested PC had virgin broadband installed today, and will now
restart instead of powering down. The Virgin people had neither heard of
linux nor firefox, so their standard install process (going from this page
in the browser
http://act2.virginmedia.com/) rebooted the machine then fell
over quite quickly. Having failed to install its software, the broadband
connection worked OK anyway, and all was OK until trying to shut down. I
get the usual progress bar then drives and screen power down, immediately
being followed by power up again.
A few hints - ubuntu 7.10 running on K7som+ mobo, athlon processor.
Tried so far - unplug PC and modem (ambit 256) and ethernet cable,
reinstalled network manager, metwork manager gnome, power manager gnome,
switched power management off, disabled power mgt in bios, amended
/etc/modules and menu.lst per (
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=623237&page=6).
Any ideas folks, the definite was that it worked fine until virgin install
was done, tho' worrying that a self-boot can cause this much chaos.
Thanks
Ed
