On Tue, 2025-02-04 at 07:05 +1100, George at Clug wrote: > Rainer, > > I believe others have responded. > > Just for my curiosity, Is Network Manager installed? Would you be > able to use nmclli to set a static IP address? Or maybe systemctl ?
I was going to respond with something similar yesterday, just couldn't "find" the words. Today..... $ nmtui I ended up forced into using network-manager last year when my previous favorite went the (dinosaur?) way of LILO. Not a clue how I tripped over nmtui, but it works for me connecting to a personal Netgear WIFI router hardwired to my Internet service provider. There's a "man nmtui" for it. I was able to figure it out by randomly poking and prodding at buttons. Nmtui has worked for me multiple times when I couldn't connect to the Internet using other, more recogizable methods found in how-to tutorials online. It's been working flawlessly for months so I had to poke and prod again to relearn it. "Edit a connection" offers an "Add" option. My hope is that something in the resulting dropdown menu will provide a viable fix here. Nmtui doesn't specificaly state WLAN in that "Add" dropdown menu. I still feel confident in posting this because my own battle repeatedly included WLAN references via e.g. "dmesg|grep rename" which provides my system's new name for wlan0 (auto-created at boot). "apt-file find nmtui" shows network-manager brings it in with which is great if and when that's already installed. THANK YOU, Developers... yet again! Best wishes... Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed! *
