On Thursday 27 October 2016 22:40:57 Glenn English wrote: > > On Oct 27, 2016, at 7:59 PM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> > > wrote: > > > > At high risk of starting another flame war about network-manager, > > nuke that puppy with extreme prejudice. > > Don't tell anybody, but that's exactly what I want to do. > > > Then fix resolv.conf to be a REAL file, it may be a link. > > Hadn't thought of that -- bears looking into. > > > Then: > > sudo chmod +i /etc/resolv.conf > > So nothing can scribble over it. > > That's the command I was looking for. I didn't know about that one. > > > Then in the /etc/networking/interfaces file, add: > > No prob -- eth* is defined there. > > > sudo service network restart, and your network should just work. > > From then on. > > Thank you very much. > > > Now this of course isn't going to work if you are carrying a lappy > > and expecting to tap the wifi at any Starbucks you pull into. Then > > you are truly at the mercy of network-mangler, which might work but > > usually doesn't. > > That's no prob either. It's the servers I'd just as soon worked. There > are people who rely on them. > > > Now, save your flames, I already put on my nomex suit. > > No flames here :-) > > Thanks, Gene > > > As far as NMs go, have you looked at WICD? It's on my Debian Jessie > XFCE laptop, and it seems relatively OK. It doesn't do anything > without being told to, it allows only one interface up at a time > (usually a good idea), and it remembers how to get the damn WiFi > going. And you can make all those extraneous APs disappear. > I have indeed used wicd, 3 or 4 times, Glenn. But the last time I tried it on a ubu 10-04 lts install, it had apparently been re-written, and totally emasculated. I worked out my way for here at the coyote.den and have not looked for it since.
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