I'm just getting back to Debian and Linux after a few years' absence - sorry if this is a simplistic question. I installed testing/Buster on a newly built desktop machine that has both onboard gigabit ethernet and a wireless Atheros NIC. Both devices were recognized during the install, and I set the wired interface as the default to minimize any connectivity issues.
Now my machine is up and running, and I want the wireless device to always be brought up and used as the default. What is the best unix/Debian way to get this set up properly? Within KDE, it connects to my home network without issues as if the machine were a laptop, but it does not appear to have an active connection when KDE is "asleep". In particular, if I reboot it, I can't ssh into it from my MacBook until I sign into KDE, and if KDE goes to sleep, I lose the ability to ssh in within a few minutes. I'm not sure any of this is really a function of KDE, but the behavior is certainly correlated. Thanks for any help, and sorry if this is basic stuff any linux user should know. I'm a surgeon, not an engineer or admin. Also, I've tried posting a few times unsuccessfully but I think the problem was that I didn't use plain text. So, sorry if this is a duplicate. -- David Bruce For all your software needs, visit The Apt Store: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main
