On 18/08/17 18:45, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 16:36:12 +0100
> Dave Turner <dave_t_turner@???> wrote:
>
>> On 18/08/17 00:22, Joel Roth wrote:
>>> deleted /lib/udev and all the sub-directories
>> With eudev I have a working keyboard so today I went in and removed
>> /etc/systemd/* . Re-booted and I still have a working keyboard but no
>> network connection!
> Hi Dave,
>
> I think you have /etc/init.d/networking or something like that. This
> shellscript assumes a certain name for your network interface. Your
> move to eudev might have changed that name.
>
> Perform the following command to learn interface names:
>
> ip link
>
> Strongarm your network name(s) into /etc/init.d/networking as needed.
>
> If you really, really can't get /etc/init.d/networking to do the job,
> here's a shellscript to bring up a wired interface to a defined IP:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> ip link set dev enp3s0 down
> ip addr add 192.168.100.2/24 dev enp3s0
> ip addr add 192.168.100.102/24 dev enp3s0
> ip link set dev enp3s0 up
> ip route add default via 192.168.100.96
>
> Assuming your interface is named enp3s0 (and rename it if not), the
> preceding script will work on any distro.
>
> Somewhere in the past I posted, on this list, a shellscript to deduce
> the name of the wired interface, and jam it into an environment
> variable so it could be passed to scripts like the preceding.
>
> If you want to boot up wifi, you need your boot to early run, *with
> respawn*, wpa_supplicant, as aa daemon. This means for sysvinit put it
> in /etc/inittab, not in /etc/init.d/S0whateverwpa_supplicant.
>
> If, like me, you're willing to be disloyal to your distro, you can
> start up your network trivially.
>
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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I'll have a go at your and Svante's suggestions probably on Sunday
evening. Saturday and Sunday I will be putting my Harley back together
and going for a ride.

DaveT