Ubuntu help please

[muletopia (Chris)]

Folks,
Recently I tried to install Indi in Ubuntu 16.04, it failed with unmet dependencies. Whilst removing all the Indi files I removed some operating system pieces. The system was still usable, just missing items in the indicator bar. After much browsing I cold not restore the indicators so I upgraded to 16.10 with the hope that the screen would be fixed. It was.

However the system no longer sees the wired network. The wired network is how I receive the web.

The effected desktop is dual boot, Win 7 Pro and the when booted in windows all is well with the web.

This post originates from my Ubuntu 12 laptop attached to the same wired network.

Much searching and trying many of the recommendations has been to no avail.

The only clue to the problem that I can offer is the message from the clicking the Network indicator
"Ethernet Network not managed"

So can some learned person tell me how to re-connect to the web?

Chris

[Octane (Humayun)]

sudo vi /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf

managed=true

sudo service network-manager restart

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[muletopia (Chris)]

In my previous pokings around I had tried that, to no avail.
On this laptop it is set to false so it seems not to matter.
Chris

[muletopia (Chris)]

Attached, I hope, is a screen dump of the NetworkManager.conf file
Chris

[Tandum (Robin)]

Any chance you can get a live CD of the correct version
Pity you ran an upgrade. That might screw the goose.
Just copy the bin directories over from the cd.

[muletopia (Chris)]

Robin,
I downloaded The latest 16.04.2 iso on my laptop,a long job via my satellite connection so much for NBN being the same experience everywhere. I burnt a dvd and inserted it into my running desktop Ubuntu. Excuse my ignorance, but where do I find the bin directory/files?
Chris

[Tandum (Robin)]

Hi Chris,
I thought you'd know. I'd guess /dev/cdrom. I'm not intimate with your UNIX version but they are pretty much all the same.

CentOS for my servers.

BSD is different though, more like the old SCO, a different init system. It appears to me that they built apple on top of BSD. Probably why a Mac install disk only costs postage.
Robin.

[rcheshire (Rowland)]

Originally Posted by muletopia

Robin,
I downloaded The latest 16.04.2 iso on my laptop,a long job via my satellite connection so much for NBN being the same experience everywhere. I burnt a dvd and inserted it into my running desktop Ubuntu. Excuse my ignorance, but where do I find the bin directory/files?
Chris

Its just below the root directory

/

/bin

Device files in

/dev

[DarkArts]

If you have the CD, you can achieve (IMHO) a better outcome with less risk.

Insert the CD, and open Synaptic. In Settings > Repositories click the Additional Repositories button and enable CD-ROM (Installation Disc), then click Update the Cache.

In the main Synaptic window, search/find your suspect packages and 'Mark for Reinstallation' then Apply your settings. That will trigger the post-installation (setup) scripts for all re-installed packages as well as replacing the binaries.

[muletopia (Chris)]

Thank you gentlemen,
For you array of methods.
I am now up and running.
Cheers
Chris