I'll be honest here, I'm pretty new to Ubuntu and Linux here with my only experience being minor to moderate Command Line usage in Windows (it's REALLY not as scary as many make it out to be) and the Linux file system of Android phones, so please explain each step for me like you would any new user?
I'm running a near fresh install, days old of Ubuntu 15.10, due to hardware issues preventing me from using Windows. What's relevant here is that I was trying to locate the drivers I'd need to build for my wireless USB adapter (RTL8811AU if it matters) but after building realized an earilier concern was in the way.
That is, initally upon install the network manager service was working fine, telling me I had an ethernet connection where what I wanted was a wireless one; but upon preforming initial updates I no longer saw the network indicator and kept getting a "Network services are not compatible with this version" message. I still had ethernet internet connection though despite numerous reboots, so I went hunting for the info. All of them, however, were for 12.x and 14.x Ubuntu versions, I went with the 14.x guides here for best chance at similarity:
https://askubuntu.com/a/727462/526146
Obviously since I'm here now, this was a bad idea. Ubuntu 15.10 is still running fine, just with zero access to the internet. I have the LiveUSB I used to install it on hand still, same Ubuntu 15.10 minus any post install updates. Any idea how I could repair my network manager packages using it?