[ubuntu-uk] SOLVED - Lost Wireless Connection after upgrade

[Neil Greenwood]

On 15 August 2010 13:46, A J Binnie <gus.binnie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> On 15 August 2010 09:02, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 15 Aug 2010, at 08:27, John Stevenson <john at jr0cket.com> wrote:
>>
>> > sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
>> >
>>
>> I would recommend "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" not "sudo apt-get upgrade".
>
> Sadly it was installing the updates that triggered the trouble in the first
> place.
>[snip]

We realised that it probably broke because of a bad update.

The solution is to update again. "Huh?", you say. The reasoning behind
it is that either something downloaded incorrectly, or more often that
a bug was uploaded but has now been fixed. Updating the list of
packages (the "update" parameter) and re-running the upgrade
("dist-upgrade" or "full-upgrade" - they mean the same thing but the
former is deprecated) quite often fixes things, provided of course
that you can get a network connection... :-)

I'm glad that you managed to fix things.


Cofion/Regards,
Neil.