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Re: [trinity-users] a perfectly good system shot to hell

From: William Morder <doctor_contendo@...>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 01:28:35 -0700

On Wednesday 13 June 2018 01:17:43 Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> On 06/13/2018 12:05 AM, Mike Bird wrote:
> > On Tue June 12 2018 20:31:27 William Morder wrote:
> >> Now my network managers and other network-aware programs cannot
> >> recognize wlan0. (I use a wifi antenna to connect my desktop to the
> >> shared network in my building, which has been fairly stable.) Don't even
> >> bother suggesting that I try eth0, as there is nothing here for me to
> >> plug in *to*: it's wifi or nothing.
> >
> > Did I miss seeing this question on the Devuan list?
> >
> > What sayeth "ipconfig", "ip link", "iwconfig", "dpkg -l | grep udev",
> > "dpkg -l | grep dbus", "dpkg -l | grep network-manager",
> > "dpkg -l | grep wpa", "ps ax | head -2", and "cat
> > /etc/network/interfaces"?
> >
> > FWIW my wlan0 is running fine in Ascii + TDE with openvpn and quagga,
> > although we don't use network manager.
>
> I just configure /interfaces to hot plug and configure wicd accordingly,
> with Devuan it's easy.
>
> Cheers,

I already tried to configure interfaces to hot plug, but it reverts to 
defaults, which only list lo, not even eth0, and not wlan0 at all. And wicd 
is okay, but downloading those packages seems to be a bit tricky. I keep 
downloading the same stuff, over and over, including wicd and associated 
packages. 

Bill