I would probably try a minimal debian stable (providing it works on your new hardware) install and if that works then do a dist upgrade to testing.
probably quicker than trying to debug your issue. Good luck Dan On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 2:44 PM Brad Rogers <b...@fineby.me.uk> wrote: > Hello, > > For the first time, I'm having problems installing Debian testing on new > hardware; > > Asus TUF X570 Plus mobo with onboard Realtek network L8200A i/f > > As things stand, it /seems/ that the boot process is waiting for the > network interface to come up, before proceeding to start the SDDM log in > manager. Switching to tty2 and logging in would appear to bear this > out, as attempting to ping anything other than LAN machinery results in > 'No route to host' reports. > > The package firmware-realtek from testing has been installed. > > The OS was installed using a net-install CD, so clearly, the network > card is working. Having never previously encountered network i/f issues > myself, I'm really rather at a loss as to how I should proceed. > > > /etc/network/interfaces reads (comments & empty lines omitted); > ---- > source /etc/networks/interfaces.d/* > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > ---- > > /etc/networks/interfaces.d/ is an empty directory. > > For the sake of full disclosure, I see this; > > [FAILED] Failed to start NVIDIA Persistence Daemon > > during the boot process. I suspect it has little bearing on the issue > I'm experiencing, but mention it 'just in case'. > > My $SEARCH foo has turned up nothing recent, only stuff from 2002, 2009 > or thereabouts. > > IDK how to proceed. Ideas and pointers (even moral support) sought and > welcomed. > > Thank you. > > -- > Regards _ > / ) "The blindingly obvious is > / _)rad never immediately apparent" > It's your life so go your own way > Questions And Answers - Sham 69 >
