Re: Laptop wireless problem

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 03 July 2016 14:56:07 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Sunday 03 July 2016 14:49:44 deloptes wrote:
> > Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > Ah!  That could be part of the problem,but on its home network it has
> > > worked fine for several years, and stopped working suddenly on Friday
> > > afternoon, on the clients' premises,  while connected.  I had been
> > > upgrading earlier.
> >
> > If it was working, then perhaps it messed up with the upgrades. I would
> > check if I have some older packages not completely removed - example
> > dpkg -l | grep '^rc'
>
> Loads.  Now to Google how to remove them safely .....
>
> The obvious thing to do I suppose is look up how to get aptitude to remove
> broken packages.
>
> Will sort that out now, and get back to report when I have!!
>
> Lisi
>
> > If this does not help I would check tcpdump or tcp6dump.
> >
> > regards

One aptitude purge and one aptitude install later, and the list is 4 shorter.

I have to go now.  I'll come back to this soon, and work through the list 
either purging or installing according to whether I think we want whatever it 
is.  Most will probably need installing, so I am sure I could automate it via 
aptitude and dpkg - but that is an exercise for another day.

Thank you very much.

Lisi