Advance Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) or APM ( Advance Power Management ) support for Ubuntu 10.04 was not installed by default after server installation.  I needed this so that during power outage I can just press the power button to automatically shutdown the PC. sudo aptitude install acpi acpi-support apm This will install the [...]

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82579 based Ethernet network cards are only supported in Kernel 2.6.36 and up, thus Ubuntu 10.04 LTS will not have out-of-the-box support for the network card. I needed this to work since I’ll be using this as my server and 11.04 is not LTS, I have no choice. To fix this with the motherboard I have from [...]

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