Loss of Menu and Wireless card

Stephen Burke qfwfq at adelphia.net
Tue Nov 30 07:52:56 EST 2004


Tucking tail and submitting to the dark lord in Redmond would be unwise.
In the end you will have to learn Linux  anyway when you simply can't 
take corporate control of your computing any longer. Listen to Stallman: 
putting your data into a proprietary system is like putting your neck 
into a noose. Expecting things to work the first (or second, or third) 
time, however, is dangerously optimistic.

Simply start over when things become totally unusable

I have built and fried more Linux systems of various flavors here than I 
can count. All trying to do some simple thing that seemed like a really 
good idea the moment before I lost control of the desktop or the 
soundcard or X or whatever.

I gave up on up2date ages ago, since I have never been able to make it 
work on numerous redhat installs. Every reinstall, it seems, makes me 
discover some new capability of whatever flavor of Linux that I had not 
yet discovered, so that's always fun.

There are many flavors to choose from, some easier to deal with than 
others.
You should taste at least a few before admitting defeat.
Or just keep reinstalling that one until it works the way you want it to.

The Linux gods only want one thing from you: STUDY.

imho, anyway.
;-),
S.


frank at mogosystems.com wrote:

> I have tried using redhat-menus0 through synaptic and have enraged the 
> Linux gods. I am now condemned to X-Win and do not know how to run it 
> very well. I was able to get the gnome-panel running and figured I 
> could use the desktop switcher to bring back the desktop but the only 
> choices were XFce or TWN. ( I was hoping for gnome or KDE)
>
> The other thing is I can only log in as root. It seems like my normal 
> login that I use is gone.
>
> Should I tuck my tail and run back to Winbloze?
>
>
>
> *On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 12:07 , Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> sent:
>
> *
>
>     It also comes to mind that you put apt-get on that box, didn't
>     you? If
>     so, it's probably not a good idea to mix package handling utilities.
>
>     frank at mogosystems.com
>     <javascript:parent.opencompose('frank at mogosystems.com','','','')>
>     wrote:
>
>     > I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving.
>     >
>     > I used up2date on wednesday night and now I am missing some of the
>     > main menu. I am missing the categories. (i.e. Accessories, sound
>     and
>     > video, system tools). The lower part of the menu starting at
>     "Run an
>     > Application" is still there. Can anyone tell me where to find these
>     > and how to get then back onto the menu?
>     >
>     > Also I upgraded the kernel using up2date. When I boot up to the new
>     > kerel the wireless device, ath0, does not function. Does any one
>     have
>     > any ideas for FC2 on this? (Bob Meyer, there could be more wings
>     > involved here)
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     > Frank
>     >
>
>
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