Thanks giveitatry - I followed your instructions and they worked fine. The change from pre-8.10 versions of Ubuntu is that "uname -r" now gives "<linux version>-generic" not "<linux version>-386" and the linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic package is there OK.
Thanks giveitatry - I followed your instructions and they worked fine. The change from pre-8.10 versions of Ubuntu is that "uname -r" now gives "<linux version>-generic" not "<linux version>-386" and the linux-headers- 2.6.27- 7-generic package is there OK.