Hello Ben, On 11/24/18, Ben Nisenbaum via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote:
Hello everyone, My problem is that I cannot get the ethernet card on the local network to get up. I'm new to debian after many years of red-hat/fedora. The machine: HP Compaq Elite 8300 SFF (Core i5). The system: debian buster (testing)
Some information:
[ben@til ~]$ systemctl status networking.service networking.service - Raise network interfaces Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/networking.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
This tells me a lot. You have systemd, and I think NetworkManager. You need to use those tools, not the command line, it will manage the configuration files for you, it will overwrite any manual changes. I do not like NetworkManager, nor Systemd. I can tell NetworkManager to ignore a particular ethernet interface successfully, then use ifup and ifdown, but not for wi-fi. For that, there are the command line tools, but there are several steps and coordinating the use of the discovery and connection is not so trivial. Regards, Mark Trickett