Hi Steve, Oh come on Steve,
Every modern computer user should know terminals are past their era: beautiful, appealing to the eye desktops is the way to go. Terminals are like using a handtool where a powertool can be used effortlessly and more efficiently. [/sarcasm] Yes, I agree with you, the cancer continues to spread unabated. Edward On 18/01/2016, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
