LAN Card Marvell Yukon pada Linux Ubuntu 8.04 Handy

I'm telling you about Rommy first experience installing Ubuntu Handy on his laptop. He has Toshiba M300 with Marvel Yukon LAN-card. When he finished installing ubuntu handy, he couldn't use his LAN-card. In that time the kernel was still 2.6.24-16. Of course he was panic with the condition, his friend said that he couldn't do a thing on Linux without internet connection.

After googling, finally he found a way to how to detect his lan-card over ubuntu handy. only several syntax line in the terminal like this:

$ sudo su - [enter your password]
# modprobe sky2
# rmmod sky2
# cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net
# cp -p sky2.ko{,.orig}
# perl -pe 's/\0\0\x6c\x43/\0\0\x55\x43/g' sky2.ko.orig > sky2.ko
# echo sky2 >> /etc/modules

after that, restart your computer. The weak point is, he must do it everytime he update the kernel. Now, he uses kernel 2.6.24-19 and the methode above's still working on his laptop. I hope this article help you all!!