I have 11.10 installed on a Toshiba Satellite.
Often when I try to boot up, it never progresses from the purple sign on screen.
Then when killing it and rebooting over and over, eventually I get past the purple screen but only get the desktop background and nothing else, no files, nothing but the picture.
Then eventually it fully boots up all the way, so I just hibernate when shutting down.
It shows no updates and when it does, I update.
Then recently, (the past few days) it seems to be fully booting up more often, but now refuses to connect to the Internet.
It sees it, I get the up and down arrows, but it "cannot find server" to any web address.
For a few weeks now we have no longer been using the wireless router as it was slow, and have been connecting directly, and it was ok for a while.
Some days nothing I do will connect fully.
I found a post that said to try...
$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
but I get No such file or directory
and
$ sudo /etc/init.d/NetworkManager restart
bash: /etc/init.d/NetworkManager: No such file or directory
However, after I did it, it started to see wifi at the restaurant I'm waiting at.
Who knows if I will be able to get on line at home, with or without the cable.
OH, and Windows goes on line and hits any address I look for instantly, but my anti-virus is expired so Ubuntu is my main on line surfing software.
As far as I was told, Ubuntu is supposed to be safe from viruses, but it's acting like I have a virus, or have been hacked.
I am not the most computer savvy older guy.
Any clues for the clueless?
Often when I try to boot up, it never progresses from the purple sign on screen.
Then when killing it and rebooting over and over, eventually I get past the purple screen but only get the desktop background and nothing else, no files, nothing but the picture.
Then eventually it fully boots up all the way, so I just hibernate when shutting down.
It shows no updates and when it does, I update.
Then recently, (the past few days) it seems to be fully booting up more often, but now refuses to connect to the Internet.
It sees it, I get the up and down arrows, but it "cannot find server" to any web address.
For a few weeks now we have no longer been using the wireless router as it was slow, and have been connecting directly, and it was ok for a while.
Some days nothing I do will connect fully.
I found a post that said to try...
$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
but I get No such file or directory
and
$ sudo /etc/init.d/NetworkManager restart
bash: /etc/init.d/NetworkManager: No such file or directory
However, after I did it, it started to see wifi at the restaurant I'm waiting at.
Who knows if I will be able to get on line at home, with or without the cable.
OH, and Windows goes on line and hits any address I look for instantly, but my anti-virus is expired so Ubuntu is my main on line surfing software.
As far as I was told, Ubuntu is supposed to be safe from viruses, but it's acting like I have a virus, or have been hacked.
I am not the most computer savvy older guy.
Any clues for the clueless?
