12.04.2 LTS, new install, network broken

[Liam Proven]

On 7 July 2013 14:17, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 07 July 2013 09:01:05 Liam Proven did opine:
>
>> On 7 July 2013 12:45, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 200 lines of ranting and complaining are not offset by thanks at the
>> > end. Life's too short.
>> >
>> > Sorry, Gene. Come back when you can control your temper.
>>
>> By the way, if you're another Unity hater (I am tired of reading that
>> & skip any message containing that particular bit of bigotry)  & you
>> want Kmail, then why on Earth are you using the Unity edition? Go try
>> Kubuntu. It doesn't use GNOME network manager, which you seem to hate
>> so much.
>
> My whole point in that is:  If it cannot do the job its purported to be
> assigned, how did it ever get past QC?

Works for me & about 20M other users.

> At no point here, has anyone offered to help me understand how to do such a
> mundane thing as make the networking actually work, when the user/installer
> has no access to the apply button in the gui tools provided.

You've not given us much info, e.g. network config. You won't even
disclose the LAN address. It's a private address FFS! There is
absolutely zero security reason.

I told you mine works with a nonzero 192.168.x.y address & you took it
as an attempt to guess yours! WTF?

> All I have been told to do is undo that which I did, and which works.

Content-free.

> I know things change, hopefully to work even better, but regressive change
> is not progress.  This "Unity" you called it is regressive. Eye candy with
> no purpose that I have been able to detect.

I like it. So do many others. PEBCAK.


> From what I have read in this folder, since I dump kubuntu posts into this
> folder too, one gets a better working kubuntu by pulling in kde than you
> get from a kubuntu install.  So thats next I guess.

Don't believe it, myself, but feel free.

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