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upgrading to 10.04fails to install

Asked by kgnsupport@googlemail.com

I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 - the Karmic Koala, and when i run the upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04 LTS it goes well till i get an error on the network applet so i ignore it an it continues to install other things after i restarted the laptop the option to connect to Wireless networks is not happening it shows up trys to connect but fails then restart they disappear now.

so please help me i run a a website and i need access to the wireless networks to do business online, have never came across any error before till now in this upgrade ugh i just wonna continue to do basic work now i cannot without using my wifi. i need my Ethernet cord for my Gaming Console so i can do gaming while im multi tasking on the laptop.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Use a wired connection to run:

sudo apt-get --reinstall install network-manager-gnome

or you could use:

http://packages.ubuntu.com

and download the debs for network-manager and network-manager-gnome and install them using:

dpkg -i *.deb

etc. Obviously the wired version is far easier but both are ok.

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kgnsupport@googlemail.com (kgnsupport) said : 		#2

ok thank you i'll try it and report back to you guys ok

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kgnsupport@googlemail.com (kgnsupport) said : 		#3

james@james-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get --reinstall install network-manager-gnome
[sudo] password for james:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  firefox-3.5-branding
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/473kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 145088 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace network-manager-gnome 0.8-0ubuntu3 (using .../network-manager-gnome_0.8-0ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement network-manager-gnome ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.utf8.cache...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Setting up network-manager-gnome (0.8-0ubuntu3) ...

so far still not letting me connect to the wireless as it does in 9.10 and earlier versions...

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

ok then if you press ALT+F2 and run:

nm-applet

Can you now use the icon in the top right of the screen near the clock??

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

You can always install wicd. It will automagically remove network manager, after a reboot it will run and will let you configure stuff.

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kgnsupport@googlemail.com (kgnsupport) said : 		#6

im still new to ubuntu so whats wicd?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#7

Its an alternative to network-manager and is desktop independant so can be used on any buntu without pulling in lots of dependancies. It also allows the wireless device to be not wlan0 which network manager sticks to and expects.

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kgnsupport@googlemail.com (kgnsupport) said : 		#8

OK, thank you so much i have fixed the issue they should give u two options for the network manger software encase it fails to do it's job correctly so i thank you for taking out your time in the day to help me i thank you

-James

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#9

Theres also wifi-radar, Linux is full of options. The distro devs choose an app by default (network manager is chosen over wicd as it can handle 3G as far as I remember)

Glad you got the gold.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#10

Add:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WICD
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NetworkManager0.7
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs