On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Mark Phillips <mark@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
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On Feb 6, 2013 10:04 AM, "Carruth, Rusty" <Rusty.Carruth@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.

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
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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.

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