On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Sean Dague <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/28/2014 08:03 PM, Jack Chastain 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). > > ifconfig -a (the -a is important) as that will display all interfaces > known to the system even if they don't have addresses, which yours don't. > > Yep - that's a habit I have - and when NOT on DVD, it only has lo (booted on LiveCD - much more normal, though no address on eth0)
> I also don't know what a Logitech Unity is, so I'm not sure what kind of > device is expected there. > > On LIveCD it "just works" - even the keyboard! Yay! Maybe I don't need Solaar anymore! > > 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! > > What you are looking for is reference for your network adapters > initializing for instance: > > [ 8.991276] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow > Control: Rx/Tx > (from my desktop) > > or > > [496871.229602] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: L1 Enabled; Disabling L0S > [496871.236602] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0 > [500301.873312] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: no hotplug settings from platform > [501462.791896] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: no hotplug settings from platform > (from my laptop) > > Yeah - absolutely nothing like this when on normal boot. No eth anything (I grepped before) > The other thing to figure out is figure out if some config file wanted to > be updated during upgrade and didn't get: > > sudo find /etc | grep dpkg-dist > > nothing returns. I dropped off the "-dist" and get some results, so I am presuming the answer to this is "there aren't any". > That will be the etc files which there was a new distro config file, but > either you or the system decided not to apply it. That can be the cause for > configuration issues like this as well. > > But, that being said, there is a lot of shooting in the dark here. > > Totally understand and appreciate the attempts. Original question stands - is it possible to do a "recovery" from the DVD I now have, or am I just going to commit to a rebuild? I can do that - probably easier - I backed up my entire home dir before, so no loss anticipated (though I have to reload all the "stuff". Too clueless to use all the nice reconstruction things ;-) > -Sean > > JC -- 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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