Hi all, I still monitor debian-user. Today on that mailing list a guy asked how to get network connectivity while using Openbox, and guesses (I have a feeling correctly) that it's a dhcp problem. He wants to know how to get dhcp running with Openbox --- it ran with Xfce.
Yes indeedee, I'm pretty sure that now Debian is one of those distros that doesn't network connect until the desktop environment is running. Which is some of the worst perversion I've heard to date. Last time I heard, network connectivity is part of the core OS, not part of the user interface. By the way, if any of you just wants to connect to a specific IP address, here's my always-works, distro-agnostic script to do it: =========================================== #!/bin/bash ip link set dev enp3s0 down ip addr add 192.168.100.2/24 dev enp3s0 ip link set dev enp3s0 up ip route add default via 192.168.100.96 =========================================== Obviously, change enp3s0 to the interface of choice (which can be deduced by a shellscript calling ip link), and change the ip address and route to what you want. This script can be run very early in the boot. With this script, you can forget about every distro's idiosyncratic way of specifying network connections, and just get it done. SteveT Steve Litt January 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
