Need help Updating to 9.04 from terminal

[kakarotman]

So i was using virtualbox and i could not get the mouse out of windows xp so i force turned off my laptop and when i turned it back on both the mouse and keyboard were not responding at all. I restarted and tried several times with no luck.

So i want to try and update from the terminal so i need these commands:

how to connect to my wireless network
how to update to version 9.04

Also if you know how to fix my computer lockup problem let me know!

[Zorael]

Forced shutdowns are bad for you. Use SysRq commands (http://kember.net/articles/231/reisub-the-gentle-linux-restart[/url) if you really need to reboot when X isn't responding.

If your keyboard and/or your mouse isn't working in X, I'd try reconfiguring HAL.

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure hal
As for connecting to a wireless network via a terminal, the command you need to use is iwconfig (http://linux.die.net/man/8/iwconfig). For instance, this is the command I use to connect to my old WEP-only router

$ sudo iwconfig <device, wlan0> essid <essid> key [1] <first hex key>
$ sudo dhclient wlan0
$ host ubuntu.com
As for upgrading via a terminal, I think you just need to edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file (and *.list files under /etc/apt/sources.list.d/) and replace all mentions of intrepid with jaunty in the lines that start with deb and deb-src. Then do a full-upgrade (or a dist-upgrade).

$ sudo aptitude update
$ sudo aptitude full-upgrade