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.

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 ;-)

Plus, you’ve tried to manually install drivers, so synaptic probably won’t help.

Sorry!  Good luck!

Rusty

From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@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

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.