My first step after reading while waiting for approval (excuse my cross-posting) was
sudo systemctl disable connman.service After reboot there was no connman anymore. But the appended /etc/network/interfaces still does not have any effect :-( sudo cat /etc/network/interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface # auto eth0 # iface eth0 inet dhcp # https://sheldondwill.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/beaglebone-black-ubuntu-change-to-static-ip-address/ auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.178.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.178.0 broadcast 192.168.178.255 gateway 192.168.178.1 dns-search fritz.box dns-nameservers 192.168.178.1 sudo ifconfig eth0: flags=-28605<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DYNAMIC> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.178.30 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.178.255 inet6 2003:e5:4f4e:9000:dd88:c9ee:10cd:93e5 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x0<global> inet6 fe80::5496:4382:7f0d:6e2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link> inet6 2003:e5:4f4e:9000:84af:175c:c818:f10b prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x0<global> ether 02:02:00:02:15:80 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 107835 bytes 39160508 (39.1 MB) RX errors 0 dropped 71414 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 20283 bytes 5293839 (5.2 MB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host> loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback) RX packets 3398 bytes 314287 (314.2 KB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 3398 bytes 314287 (314.2 KB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 usb0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ether 02:11:67:8c:6b:cb txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/a4f5f384-d780-4e9c-96db-fd6d2795679a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
