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wireless icon gone

Asked by RRoemershauser

I bought a recent laptop. I notice it had 344 updates on the computer that came up. I couldn't get it to download the updates from a error that came up. I found the soluction on the message board and type in the code to fix the bug. The problem was fix and it was downloading the updates and after 2 hours I had to leave. I close the laptop and was going to return updating the problem. I put the message board solution on my favorites.
I return to the laptop and the icons, with the clock sift from the right-side to the left-side. Everything else appears except the wireless icon. When I click on the internet icon under the web, 2 internet screens come up and disapears.
The updates manager still has the bug and I can't continue to update the 157 available.
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a'to correct the problem.
E:_cache->open()failed, please report.
I couldn't find the problem again on the message board again, after looking for awhile. It's more importnat to get the internet to work then the updates, I believe.
Thank you to whomever assistes, you are the very best.

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Best Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#1

Hi,

First please make sure to close all open programs, including all package managers like Synaptic, Add/remove programs, etc ...

Then please try this procedure:

Step 1: Open Terminal from "Applications->Accessories->
Terminal"

Step 2: Please COPY-PASTE each line below into the Terminal then hit <enter> after each line)

sudo cp -arf /var/lib/dpkg /var/lib/dpkg.backup
sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status
sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/available-old /var/lib/dpkg/available
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/dpkg/updates/*
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists
sudo mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists
sudo mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists/partial
sudo aptitude clean
sudo aptitude autoclean
sudo apt-get update
sudo dpkg --clear-avail
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get --fix-broken upgrade
sudo aptitude install -f
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude dist-upgrade

Step 3: Please post results (copy/paste terminal output from each command) on this thread

Step 4: Reboot your pc and retest wireless

Step 5: If the wireless icon is still not visible after rebooting, please run this command in a terminal:

sudo aptitude install wicd

Step 6: reboot and retest wireless using wicd network manager

Regards,

Mark

Hope it helps,

Regards,

Mark

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RRoemershauser (abovegroundlibrary) said : 		#2

Hi Mark,
Thank you for the advice and fixing the bug. I type in the commands a few times and nothing seem to worked. Some other problems seem to come up after typing in commands. My only other option was going to the store and I bought a cdrom driver and I re-install the programs. Everything seems to be working just find, including the internet wireless connection.
Thank you again, Robb

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RRoemershauser (abovegroundlibrary) said : 		#3

Thanks Mark Rijckenberg, that solved my question.