Thank you for your reply. I don't have too many useful answers to your questions. I "took today off" from experimenting with the laptop to install gNewSense on another PC. Works like a charm, with the exception of the odd NetworkManager bug I reported earlier this afternoon. Below are my responses:
On Fri, 2014-03-28 at 23:58 +0100, Sam Geeraerts wrote: > Op Thu, 27 Mar 2014 21:54:40 -0400 > schreef George Roberge <[email protected]>: > > > The bottom line is that I have absolutely no network on the laptop. > > Trisquel loaded up the atl1c driver (and iwlwifi, which I thought > > was non-free but may have been cleaned up) when I tested that OS out, > > so when the gNewSense installer told me that I had no Ethernet card I > > selected that atl1c from the list...unsuccessfully. I dropped to a > > command line and tried to modprobe it (which may not have been right, > > but I'm still in training), but no luck. Wouldn't you know that > > there was an issue reported with that module in one of the 2.6 > > kernels, which I will assume is the one I have. > > Did your modprobe attempt generate error messages? Did you also try > one of jxself's kernels? The modprobe yielded nothing, which I thought was odd. I typed it, it appeared to run, and nothing happened. I do not know if there is a verbose mode as of yet, or if a lack of any response actually indicates failure. I did not try any other kernels because I figured, from what I saw on that site, that I needed to update my repo list. Without Internet access that would not have been possible. I only read through the site fast, though, so if there is an offline way to do it I missed it. > > ...and I can't access the site from a phone, tablet, or three > > different PCs. I don't know why. > > I need to analyze our Web server logs more thourougly and find new and > exciting ways to get the spammers of our back. I'll assume that someone worked on it last night, because this morning it was humming along. George R. > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev -- George Roberge www.andforthelamb.org Free Software Foundation Member #11716 Computers are like air conditioners: both stop working when you open Windows. _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
