Part 2 of: networking disabled on laptop running ubuntu 16.04 LTS

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Sorry If I missed this, but whats the output of dmesg?

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On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 10:57 AM, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:

> Greetings, again.
>
> as you know, I have this HP Pavilion G6 laptop running Ubuntu
> 16.04 LTS x86_64 and Windows 8 in which, all of a sudden,
> both wired and wireless connectivity stopped working, but only
> in Ubuntu, not in Windows. Details in my original thread:
>
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2016-November/288238.html
>
> this afternoon I finally managed to re-download the same Ubuntu
> version that is installed there, load it on an USB drive, and booth
> from it.
>
> When the initial screen appeared (the one with the two buttons,
> "try Ubuntu" and "Install ubuntu"), it DID also show in the upper
> right corner a message saying "you are now connected via eth0"
> or something similar.
>
> So I clicked on "try ubuntu", to verify that I could actually
> use ethernet from the live image... and it's now about 30
> minutes that the laptop is frozen. Just the background image,
> nothing else.
>
> I am now going to power it down and retry, maybe in rescue mode,
> and will report here later. In the meantime, and taking the above
> as confirmation that it still is possible to use at least ethernet
> from Ubuntu on that hardware, I'm thinking to try one of those
> ways:
>
> 1) manually download packages to the drive, then boot normally and
>    install them? But which packages?
>
> 2) copying some networking configuration files from the live
>    image to the hard drive, in the corresponding folders, then
>    reboot normally and see what happens. But even here, which files?
>
> your suggestions remain very welcome, of course.
>
> TIA,
> Marco
>
>
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