Nope, no ssh. I get the login screen, and it looks normal, with a bar on top and all. Then, when I do log in, nothing to click. I'm near St. Thomas U in St. Paul, but I meant it about coming to the person with the computer (after tonight--daughter's birthday dinner). Windows side is working normally, which is why I'm thinking the hardware is OK. On Wed, Jan 21, 2015, 2:18 PM Andrew Krull <andrew.krull at gmail.com> wrote: > Wendell, > > Would you have happen to install the SSH server package on this machine > (#1 thing I do after install...). Are you able to tell if the machine is > getting an IP through PING or some other network tool (nmap, logs, etc)? If > these two items are yes, you might be able to SSH onto the system. > > The suggestions above about using the Ctrl+Alt+FX (X=1,2,3..6) doesn't > yield a terminal window with a login prompt? > > Where in the cities are you located? I am in the south metro area and > could help if need be. > > Again, getting any live distro to boot to would really help to ensure > hardware is all working... > > -- > Andrew Krull > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:05 PM, <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, 21 Jan 2015, Wendell Bell wrote: >> >> As for being backed up, I'm accustomed to losing all my data with every >>> hardware replacement and every hard reset, so this won't be any >>> different. >>> >> >> Oh good lord that is wrong and sad on so many levels. That's just no way >> to live! >> >> My friend, you need more than someone helping figure out what is very >> probably NOT a kernel issue. You need some basic How To Use Computers >> skills. Your life could be so much easier and simpler... >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20150121/b891aaa2/attachment-0001.html>