On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 13:04:38 -0500 Francis Gerund <ranr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> . . . Okay. > > The problem may be with dhcp, since xfce has no problem getting to the > outside world, but openbox refuses to go any further than localhost. > > So, does dhcp functionality need to be installed and/or set up > separately for openbox? > > And if so, how? > It should be present in all installations, independent of window manager. It is a dependency of several networking packages. The current package in all distributions since squeeze, I believe, is isc-dhcp-client. Does /sbin/ifconfig show the network interfaces you expect to see (i.e. not just lo)? -- Joe