On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 12:34:14AM -0400, William Witteman wrote:
I have always set up networking in a text file - very explicitly. I thought that something Gnome-y had wormed its way in there and "helped".
However, I have a partial solution - I ran an "ifup eth0", and I have a network again. What I wonder now is why isn't that happening when I boot up?
Well it will if the config is in /etc/network/interfaces AND that file says 'auto eth0' on one of the lines. That's how debian has done it for over a decade now. I did see one laptop loose its wired network recently. The network device is no longer showing in lspci, which is rather odd for an internal device. Unfortunately being a Dell it seems it has a misfeature of doing an rfkill on the wifi if it can't check the link state on the wired network, so wifi can't connect either. Pretty useless laptop at this point. -- Len Sorensen