12.04.2 LTS, new install, network broken

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 09 July 2013 14:15:50 Dave Woyciesjes did opine:

> On 07/09/2013 01:27 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 July 2013 13:19:35 Dave Woyciesjes did opine:
> >> On 07/09/2013 12:54 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>> Can you pop up a bash shell with the ctrl-alt-t combo?  That is at
> >>> least as handy as bottled beer.
> >>> 
> >> 	Yep. Or whack the Windows key, type term, then choose between
> > 
> > Terminal,
> > 
> >> UXTerm, or XTerm. :)
> > 
> > The 'windows key'.  Humm, by golly there is something with a w95 flag
> > on it, just one on this particular keyboard.  AFAIK its not mapped to
> > do anything though.  But using such a key seems almost like inviting
> > bad karma on a linux box. :)
> 
> 	Possibly, but so far this MS Natural Keyboard Pro I've been using 
on
> Ubuntu has been behaving itself...
> 
> 	The Windows key is also referred to as the Super key.

Now thats downright blasphemous to a linux user, Dave.  Nothing about 
windoze has ever been super for me.  But folks here need to understand that 
I have owned a windows machine for only 6 months or so out of my 35 years 
at carving code to do useful things.  And it had a copy of Mandrake on it 
the next day after I bought it.  The windows install was nothing but a 
source of drivers for the lappies radio, and when I found by running 
windows that even the windows driver for a BCM4318 was broken, and the most 
recent SP2 for XP didn't fix it, I wiped it.  Its got mint 14 on it ATM, 
works well.

My *nix like experience starts with an aftermarket OS for the TRS-80 Color 
Computer, called os9, a mini unix for a machine with 64k of memory.  That 
was my 'teacher' of the unix way of doing things.  I still have one, and 
just this past winter I wrote and published a method of switching how it 
boots up to do different jobs.  There are about as many of us on the coco 
mailing list as there are commie 64 users still around, and next spring we 
will have the 28th annual last cocofest.  Its not dead yet, new hardware 
and capabilities are always popping up.

My windows experience has been limited to configuring the neighbors 
networking when something in the chain dies.  Lighting got their router or 
some such.

Cheers, Gene
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