[PLUG-TALK] New laptop from System 76

[John Jason Jordan]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 02:48:27 -0700
Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net> dijo:

>Michael> https://system76.com/laptops/galago
>
>>> I don't like that they don't say what the wifi radio is.  Probably
>>> this is just post-traumatic-stress syndrome.  But, it does matter
>>> what the radio is.  I'd find out before I ordered.
>
>John> System76 ships all computers with Ubuntu-Unity, although
>John> sometimes the customer can specify otherwise. The point here is
>John> that all components have to work with Ubuntu-Unity. I agree that
>John> radios are a common problem with Linux, but System76 computers
>John> can probably be assumed to have radios compatible with Linux.
>
>John> I certainly had no problem with the wifi on my System76 laptop;
>John> it 'just worked.' In fact, I've never bothered to figure out what
>John> make/model it is.

>  $ lshw -c net

       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
       Controller vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0.2
       bus info: pci at 0000:03:00.2
       logical name: eth0
       version: 0a
       serial: 00:90:f5:ef:f2:59

       description: Wireless interface
       product: Centrino Wireless-N 2230
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci at 0000:04:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: c4
       serial: 00:c2:c6:00:1e:1e

       description: Ethernet interface
       physical id: 4
       bus info: usb at 4:5.1
       logical name: eth1
       serial: 00:23:54:8c:65:20

That reminds me that this computer has always had eth0 and eth1, but
only eth1 is ever used.:

ifconfig         <I edited out lo and wlan0>
eth0   Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:90:f5:ef:f2:59  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

eth1   Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:23:54:8c:65:20  
          inet addr:192.168.1.136  Bcast:192.168.1.255
	  	Mask:255.255.255.0 
	  inet6 addr: 2602:61:78e3:1600:98e6:ae88:a962:5352/64 Scope:Global 
	  inet6 addr: 2602:61:78e3:1600:294c:9297:11f8:1e13/64 Scope:Global
	  inet6 addr: fe80::223:54ff:fe8c:6520/64 Scope:Link 
	  inet6 addr: 2602:61:78e3:1600:e16d:5243:ec89:cbd1/64 Scope:Global
	  inet6 addr: 2602:61:78e3:1600:25e2:fa9d:72f8:181f/64 Scope:Global
	  inet6 addr: 2602:61:78e3:1600:14ec:59cf:a2e:43c5/64Scope:Global 
	  inet6 addr: 2602:61:78e3:1600:79b9:5414:6fd0:45ae/64 Scope:Global
	  inet6 addr: 2602:61:78e3:1600:223:54ff:fe8c:6520/64 Scope:Global
	  inet6 addr: 2602:61:78e3:1600:e15a:156:4428:ed21/64 Scope:Global 
	  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500 Metric:1 
	  RX packets:575068626 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 
	  TX packets:1058019496 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 
	  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
	  RX bytes:412583196650 (412.5 GB) TX bytes:1183492330038 (1.1 TB)

I don't know why there are both eth0 and eth1. But the ethernet
connection has always worked, so I am not interested in fixing it.