Total Networking Failure after upgrade to 12.04LTS

[Tom H]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Graham Todd <gct7photography at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You seem to have tried everything I would.  I guess now's the time to
> try another distro until someone more knowledgeable that I can fin out
> what's going wrong.
>
> I'd recommend going for Nota Linux if you still want to persist with a
> flavour of Ubuntu.  You can get it at:
>
> http://www.notalinux.com/
>
> and I've been using 12.04 very successfully with it, or if you don't
> want to try a flavour of Ubuntu, try gNewSense, which you can find at:
>
> http://www.gnewsense.org/Main/Download
>
> I've had both of them on my desktop and laptop computers, and both
> worked 'out of the box' when I tried to connect via wireless and wired
> routers respectively.

How would that help given that they're both based on Ubuntu and that
they aren't X-less?!