Additional info - I just booted from the 14.04.1 DVD and ifconfig looks a
lot more like what I would expect - but networking ins't quite there yet on
the DVD - probably just not correctly set up form LiveCD but only just
discovered it so not sure. Also found that on the DVD I also see wireless.

eth0 is present but has no address - not terribly surprising I suppose, at
least it is there.

JC

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Jack Chastain <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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
>>
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