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Ubuntu Upgrade Question 11.04 to 11.10

ktehmok

ktehmok

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Upgraded on my laptop yesterday. Now my cellular modem doesn't automatically connect at boot up, which it did with 11.04. It was a nice feature and I would like to re-enable it. It is a Cricket 1705 if that matters. Any clues? Thanks!
 
In my experience, upgrades never go smoothly. I highly recommend saving your data and config setttings files and doing a clean install.
 
That wouldn't be a problem. But I have another laptop with 11.10 installed and it doesn't do the auto connect either. That is how I noticed it before. A reinstall won't help in this case. 🙁 Must be some setting that went back to default on upgrade. But there are few options in the network settings. So I'm hoping for a command line fix.
 
Have run nm-connection-editor and looked there? I'm not sure what network settings you're exactly talking about, but that's the Network Manager manager.
 
Nothinman said:
Have run nm-connection-editor and looked there? I'm not sure what network settings you're exactly talking about, but that's the Network Manager manager.
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Tried nm-connection-editor but no luck. It just launches the same window I access through the GUI. Would it be under the keyfile plugin or ifupdown for NetworkManager.conf?
 
Is the interface listed in the Network Manager tool and already set to automatically connect and it just doesn't?
 
I had so much troubles in similar 'upgrade' situation, so I learned to not fix something that is not broken, or in other words, there are so minor differences between 11.04 and 11.10 that you maybe, if this taes a lot of time without solution, to simply downgrade to old version.

For example ,on some servers I am still using 8.04 (LTS)..
In desktop usage I think that situation is similar.
 
Is there some kind of debugging utility that could be used to see what happens when you manually connect your modem? If so, you might be able to get it going via script at startup. That's kind of kludgy, but it would be a useful, and instructional project.
 
H54 said:
In my experience, upgrades never go smoothly. I highly recommend saving your data and config setttings files and doing a clean install.
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That might be an option if I didn't have SO many programs installed - from development utilities to sound editors and analysis to some others, it takes me a couple of days to get back to "normal" if I do a clean install instead of an upgrade.

I thought I saw a post a few years ago about saving your installed progs list from the apt-get cache, and using that for a new install. Anyone else know about that?
 
joetekubi said:
That might be an option if I didn't have SO many programs installed - from development utilities to sound editors and analysis to some others, it takes me a couple of days to get back to "normal" if I do a clean install instead of an upgrade.

I thought I saw a post a few years ago about saving your installed progs list from the apt-get cache, and using that for a new install. Anyone else know about that?
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You're probably thinking of 'dpkg --get-selections' and 'dpkg --set-selections'. Which might be problematic after an upgrade because some packages will be renamed, replaced, etc during the upgrade.

That's one of the reasons that I run Debian sid. Frequent little upgrades instead of big ones every 6mo. Occasionally there's some breakage, but having apt-listbugs installed usually lets me avoid that.
 
Nothinman said:
That's one of the reasons that I run Debian sid. Frequent little upgrades instead of big ones every 6mo. Occasionally there's some breakage, but having apt-listbugs installed usually lets me avoid that.
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My test install of sid has been going very well, but I'm starting to get cold feet about upgrading to Debian when the time comes :^D I'm gonna upgrade Ubuntu anyway just to see how it works, and then install Xfce. If nothing breaks, and I like what I see, I may stick with it to avoid completely redoing my setup.

Anyway, the point is sid's pretty easy to get along with, but you have to pay attention when you get updates. Blindly hitting the install button likely won't give the best experience.
 
lxskllr said:
My test install of sid has been going very well, but I'm starting to get cold feet about upgrading to Debian when the time comes :^D I'm gonna upgrade Ubuntu anyway just to see how it works, and then install Xfce. If nothing breaks, and I like what I see, I may stick with it to avoid completely redoing my setup.

Anyway, the point is sid's pretty easy to get along with, but you have to pay attention when you get updates. Blindly hitting the install button likely won't give the best experience.
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Yep, as long as you pay attention and update frequently you're fine.
 
Well, school has started so I'm not interested in a reinstall or downgrade. Not until I get my other laptop back. Does anyone know what the command is in the drop down menu? The one that says "Enable Mobile Broadband"? I could put that in the Startup Applications. One difference I noticed after upgrade is there used to be a ton of items in Startup. Now there are only 2: Evolution Alarm notify & GNOME login sound.
 
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