It was "whatever the system wanted" - based on upgrade notices normally given... so not something I did "intentionally" - just the flow of things. I only know that it is not stating 14.04 LTE (note - I don't see 14.04.1 - though that is what I am downloading to DVD at the moment.)
ifconfig looks ... short to me - but I don't look at it often enough to know on the laptop. If I am reading it correctly, only "lo" is showing up.Loopback isn't going to do me any good (not at all sure why no wireless either but I suspect it is related). BTW: I also changed wires and physical ports - and went directly to my main router as well - all nothing. I did try "sudo restart network-manager" and it just comes back the same way. Tells me I am offline. Looking in dmesg for net-based items (anything specific I need to look for? "et.." data? This is why I never really was successful on the Linux side - my Unix is pretty damn good - but Linux still confuses me ;-) - I find these few things... NET: Registered protocol family 16 ... NET: Registered protocol family 2 [several TCP and UDP lines - nothing like errors or anything I recognise] NET: Registered protocol family 1 (others later as well) ... nothing else obvious - however the last line in dmesg reads (paraphrased here, will try to copy the entire thing if necessary to here): systemd-hostname[2887]: Warning: nss-myhostname is not installed. Changing the local hostname might make it unresolvable. Please install nss-myhostname. No clue if that is imporatant. Should I try to drop you the entire dmesg? [add: I just ran "dmesg | grep -i net" - see this mongst a few other things: "audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)"] Thanks! Jack On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Sean Dague <[email protected]> wrote: > What did you upgrade to? was it just a minor update to 14.04 LTS, or was > it the upgrade to 14.10? > > On the networking front: > > Does `ifconfig -a` return a set of interfaces that you would expect? > > Does `dmesg` list your device getting loaded and registered (which might > just mean a device mapping issue). > > I recently did the 14.10 update and because of the switch to systemd > needed to: > > rm -f /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules because the device that > was living as eth1 for the last year was now being mapped to eth0, but it > took a delete of the persistence rules to get everything to reset. > > -Sean > > > On 11/28/2014 06:17 PM, Jack Chastain wrote: > > HI folks. > > Ubuntu had a bad upgrade - or maybe I just had an upgrade failure - and > one of the effects appears to have been to take out my network - so I can't > do any of the "apt-get" fixes I am finding on my ancient Windows station to > actually fix it. > > the system boots fine, looks mostly normal save that networking is gone > and my Logitech Unity adapter is n[t seen any longer as well (one > possibility was to disable third party stuff - which I could do but without > network, I don't really see the point ... yet. ) > > If I pull down a new copy of Ubuntu, can I repair from that without > completely erasing what I have on my laptop? I am going to do some backing > up just in case I am stuck with a wipe and reinstall - but would love to > not have to do that. > > And yeah - I know all this happens just before the Backup Solutions > meeting. Karma. > > Jack > > -- > Google Voice: (914) 468-4552 > ---------------------------------------- > Prov. 12:15 > > Eschew obfuscation and pompous prolixity. > > Light a man a fire, he is warm for the night. > Light a man afire, he is warm for the rest of his life. > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group > http://mhvlug.orghttps://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College * > Dec 3 - Home Disaster Recovery > Jan 7 - When Will Then Be Now? Soon. > > > > -- > Sean Daguehttp://dague.net > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College * > Dec 3 - Home Disaster Recovery > Jan 7 - When Will Then Be Now? Soon. > > -- Google Voice: (914) 468-4552 ---------------------------------------- Prov. 12:15 Eschew obfuscation and pompous prolixity. Light a man a fire, he is warm for the night. Light a man afire, he is warm for the rest of his life.
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