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  • megane-kun
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    1 year ago

    Sorry, but just a bit of a rant here.

    An unfortunate combination of circumstances that led me to struggle connecting my desktop to the internet–but only on Linux.

    A broken driver was exposed due to a failed system update. I tried fixing the broken driver not knowing that my internet connection was actually broken at the time. For the meanwhile, I tried connecting to the internet via my phone’s portable hotspot, via bluetooth (I don’t even know why this works). The various “fixes” I tried broke other things, even as far as borking my Windows installation because … I thought Windows was messing with my LAN card.

    After giving it up, and way too many restarts both on Linux and Windows, I found Windows working again (I thought I reinstalled windows). My Linux system, save for the internet connection, is unscathed.

    I think I’ve offended the God of Tech. I might have to give them an offering.

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      1 year ago

      Update: It was a misconfiguration (?) somewhere in the mess that handles my system’s DNS settings. For some reason, it can’t find either my preferred DNS server or the cloudflare one. I had to hardcode 8.8.8.8 in the resolv.conf file.

      It’s a bandaid solution, but I’ve got a lot of work piled up that I must finish by today.