After update/upgrade in Debian Testing, my NIC stopped Working

[Dazed_75]

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>wrote:

> Rusty,
>
> Thanks for your response. Isn't synaptic just a gui front-end for
> aptitude? Or are there three different ways to update...apt, aptitude, and
> synaptic?
>
and now the "Software Center" or whatever your distro calls it.  But yes, I
do believe I read years ago that each of those just used the next layer
down (pretty much the Unix/Linux way).

> Mark
> Sent from my Android phone.
> On Feb 6, 2013 10:04 AM, "Carruth, Rusty" <
> Rusty.Carruth at smartstoragesys.com> wrote:
>
>> I am sorry that I’m not going to be any help - but I’d like to comment
>> that I almost always use synaptic for installs and updates.  One time when
>> I used aptitude it messed up the dependencies and left my computer broken.
>> That happened once with apt as well.****
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>> I seem to recall that I fixed it by switching back to synaptic, but I’m
>> getting old and my memory may be wrong there ;-)****
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>> Plus, you’ve tried to manually install drivers, so synaptic probably
>> won’t help.****
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>> Sorry!  Good luck!****
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>> Rusty****
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>> *From:* plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:
>> plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org] *On Behalf Of *Mark Phillips
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 06, 2013 9:44 AM
>> *To:* Main PLUG discussion list
>> *Subject:* After update/upgrade in Debian Testing, my NIC stopped Working
>> ****
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>> I am running Debian testing (amd64) and after running an aptitude
>> update/upgrade my wired network stopped working. I get a cable unplugged
>> message. The cable is OK and the router is OK and the link pulses are
>> there. My wireless is still working.****
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