On 31/05/16 12:34 AM, 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?
That is odd. udev is correct, network/interfaces is OK. Perhaps it's time to look over the logs, or poke through /etc/rc?.d/ and /etc/init.d to see if anything has gone astray. Again, my experience of Network Manager, whatever its foibles, has at least stayed out of the way of whatever I had set up in network/interfaces. This is why the truly paranoid just set up /etc/ as a git repository... This is also what you get when systems have uptimes reaching hundreds of days, as opposed to needing to reboot every hour or two. Cheers, Mike