Hi Steve,

Oh come on Steve,

Every modern computer user should know terminals are past their era:
beautiful, appealing to the eye desktops is the way to go. Terminals
are like using a handtool where a powertool can be used effortlessly
and more efficiently.
[/sarcasm]

Yes, I agree with you, the cancer continues to spread unabated.

Edward



On 18/01/2016, Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I still monitor debian-user. Today on that mailing list a guy asked how
> to get network connectivity while using Openbox, and guesses (I have a
> feeling correctly) that it's a dhcp problem. He wants to know how to
> get dhcp running with Openbox --- it ran with Xfce.
>
> Yes indeedee, I'm pretty sure that now Debian is one of those distros
> that doesn't network connect until the desktop environment is running.
>
> Which is some of the worst perversion I've heard to date. Last time I
> heard, network connectivity is part of the core OS, not part of the
> user interface.
>
> By the way, if any of you just wants to connect to a specific IP
> address, here's my always-works, distro-agnostic script to do it:
>
> ===========================================
> #!/bin/bash
> ip link set dev enp3s0 down
> ip addr add 192.168.100.2/24 dev enp3s0
> ip link set dev enp3s0 up
> ip route add default via 192.168.100.96
> ===========================================
>
> Obviously, change enp3s0 to the interface of choice (which can be
> deduced by a shellscript calling ip link), and change the ip address
> and route to what you want. This script can be run very early in the
> boot. With this script, you can forget about every distro's
> idiosyncratic way of specifying network connections, and just get it
> done.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
> January 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/28
>
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