Anno domini 2020 Thu, 3 Sep 23:17:50 -0700
William Morder via trinity-users scripsit:
On Thursday 03 September 2020 14:56:01 deloptes
wrote:
Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Remove or comment out all lines except these 2,
then reboot:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
good catch Dr. Klepp - I have completely forgotton that there are still
people on desktops with entries in the file.
When I read your question it lighted up again - to manage the networks
by NetworkManager there should be no entries in there (except lo as
pointed by you)
Changed these lines now (contrary to all advice found by online
"experts"!), and I am now rebooting in order to do a test run.
Science means that I ought to be able to reproduce your results, rather
than attributing my problems to the Men in Black.
Bill
P.S. Regarding those lines in /etc/network/interfaces
Okay, so that did the trick, I believe, so far as getting my network to
behave normally again. I am puzzled about why it should begin to
misbehave, when I have been using those settings since long before TDE
and Debian. I believe I set those lines back when I started running
Linux, sometime around Kubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04, so about 2006 or 2007,
back when I still had direct contact with other human beings.
Anyway, so the worst of the issue is solved. It seems that I can go
online/offline, back and forth, without my connection getting caught in
some limbo then needing to reboot.
However, there is yet one glitch. When I tried to use tdenetworkmanager
to connect, I can look at all available networks, as usual, and
everything behaves as expected. I only needed to re-enter my wifi
password, enable my chosen network, etc., but when I go to save the
network, I am told that I don't have sufficient permissions.
On the other hand, wicd seems to work normally again, so that life can go
on, one way or another. I would like to solve this new issue, but if not,
at least I can control my network connection.