12.04.2 LTS, new install, network broken

[Ric Moore]

On 07/07/2013 09:17 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 07 July 2013 09:01:05 Liam Proven did opine:
>
>> On 7 July 2013 12:45, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 200 lines of ranting and complaining are not offset by thanks at the
>>> end. Life's too short.
>>>
>>> Sorry, Gene. Come back when you can control your temper.
>>
>> By the way, if you're another Unity hater (I am tired of reading that
>> & skip any message containing that particular bit of bigotry)  & you
>> want Kmail, then why on Earth are you using the Unity edition? Go try
>> Kubuntu. It doesn't use GNOME network manager, which you seem to hate
>> so much.
>
> My whole point in that is:  If it cannot do the job its purported to be
> assigned, how did it ever get past QC?
>
> At no point here, has anyone offered to help me understand how to do such a
> mundane thing as make the networking actually work, when the user/installer
> has no access to the apply button in the gui tools provided.
>
> All I have been told to do is undo that which I did, and which works.
>
> I know things change, hopefully to work even better, but regressive change
> is not progress.  This "Unity" you called it is regressive. Eye candy with
> no purpose that I have been able to detect.
>
>>From what I have read in this folder, since I dump kubuntu posts into this
> folder too, one gets a better working kubuntu by pulling in kde than you
> get from a kubuntu install.  So thats next I guess.

Gene, you do not use the standard kernel, if I've read you right in the 
past. It's not impossible that your kernel doesn't get all the attention 
that a stock kernel enjoys and that there is a burp in the barrel? 
And/or 12.04 has problems with it that you didn't have with 10.04?  It's 
worth considering. It would be interesting to see if Thunderbird has the 
same problems. It's all I use now. Ric



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