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

[Mark Phillips]

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?

Mark
Sent from my Android phone.
On Feb 6, 2013 10:04 AM, "Carruth, Rusty" <Rusty.Carruth at smartstoragesys.com>
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> 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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