Probably stupid question, but

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 28 August 2013 13:48:22 Tom H did opine:

> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > Since Network-Mangler is in dependency hell and cannot be removed, the
> > chattr after fixing the real files right is a heck of a good idea.  It
> > doesn't seem to mind not being able to overwrite a good file with its
> > version of hog slop, dreamed up out of thin air.
> 
> In what way does NM not work for you?
 
It repeatedly tore down a working connection for me, in under a minute, I 
went through this loop about 10-12 times when I installed 12.04.2LTS on 
this machine, on a drive which is currently sitting on /dev/sdb.  I have 
one of those quick change 3 drive cages tiger-direct sells.  So it boots 
from whichever drive I have in the sda slot at powerup.  Currently booted 
to the 10.04.4 LTS install but running its newest kernel, 3.8.2.

> Have you filed bugs about your problems?

Yes, and were canceled within the hour 2 or 3 years ago.  No one seem able 
to even entertain the idea that it could be broken.  Back then it was still 
wet behind the ears, but criticism was still not tolerated.

But lets get back to the dhcp problem that Liam says I've broken somehow, 
and fix it so it Just Works?

Its supposed to work, but only very occasionally would it work for my 
laptop, so its Mint14 install is now hard coded in the hosts file just like 
the rest of the machines here.  I boot it, it works. I do what I wanted to 
do without fighting for hours to get a radio hookup that stays up long 
enough to ping yahoo.com 5 or 6 times.  And the signals are, in ham 
parlance, 5 nines. 12 feet maximum range.  I have one of those "wifi 
walker" signal detectors.

I need to go get a prescription, so will be out of pocket for several 
hours.

Thanks.

Cheers, Gene
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