After installing trixie without a desktop, configuring it to my
tastes, installing my prefered tools I rebooted to see if I'd broken
something. Let me point out that I removed nothing, only added
packages I normally use like gpm, jed, lynx and localc.
Upon reboot I have no internet connection though the cable is
still hooked to my ISPs modem.
I've spent several hours reading man pages about systemctl,
networkctl, systemd.network, systemd-networkd.service, ad nauseum.
Most of those man pages gave a little sketch and said 'See Also:'.
I have a simple system with static IP addressing of my computer, a
router, printer and Windows computer that is seldom on.
It has worked well through several versions of Debian but this
upgrade has me stumped.
I read a post a while back relating a conversation from DebCon
where professional system managers pushed NetworkManager to be the
default in Debian. While I don't mind that it should be included this
added complexity does me no good at all and I'd be very surprised
if the professional network managers aren't a very small minority of
Debian users.
More and more Debian is looking like Windows and less like the
unix of old, a collection of small tools that do one thing and do
it well.
Pardon the rant, but if someone could tell me how to get the
network back up in trixie I'd appreciate it.
Thanks,
Mike
--
The party in power is always the worst, and every man looks good until
he is elected.
- Will Rogers
