Insurmountable Problem

[Noah Duffy]

Well, at least you're back up an running with Internet!

Noah Duffy
noah.duffy at me.com


On Aug 31, 2009, at 8:42 PM, Karl F. Larsen wrote:

> Andrew Farris wrote:
>> On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 18:05 -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> What was the error message when it failed? I just got a lot of  
>> practice
>> resolving weird issues w/ broken software over the weekend, because I
>> accidentally overwrote python with a (failed) build of a newer  
>> python I
>> did myself. Broke nearly Everything graphical on my system, and  
>> took me
>> a whole day to set right.
>>
>> On the plus side, I finally figured out how to use vi :)
>>
>>
>
> 	Well I had to use my fix. I reloaded Hardy and it is now getting a  
> lot
> of updates. But network-manager is working fine. In fact this is typed
> on Hardy.
>
> 73 Karl
>
>
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