Insurmountable Problem

Karl F. Larsen klarsen1 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 1 00:05:46 UTC 2009


Andrew Farris wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 16:38 -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>> On my 8.04 I got it working except wiced which I added a year ago when 
>> it came up. This completely removed network-manager so when I got the x 
>> windows working I still had no Internet. This was disapointing but it 
>> was how it was.
>>
>>     I worked with wiced but got no results. It was broken I think and no 
>> reason found.
>>
>>     Then I decided to remount network-manager because it works fine with my 
>> wired Internet. But then re-discovered I can't do that! I have no Internet.
>>
>>     I may have the LiveCD for 8.04 and will look for it. Does anyone know 
>> how to get network-manager from the CD to the hard drive?
>>
>> 73 Karl
> 
> I think...
> 
>      1. Insert Ubuntu CD (of correct version)
>      2. sudo apt-cdrom add
>      3. sudo aptitude reinstall network-manager
> 
> should work?
> 
> If it doesn't, go uncheck all your software sources (except for the CD)
> in "System > Administration > Software Sources", then do a "sudo apt-get
> update" then the above.
> 
> hope that helps
> 
	Sorry neither method works. I do have a good LiveCD of Hardy. The 
second method was odd because it got nothing. I did try

sudo aptitude install network-manager on my hard drive Hardy but it failed.

73 Karl


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