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Author: Jackman
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To: KatolaZ
CC: DNG
Subject: Re: [DNG] Wicd and rtl8152
Thank you for both of your responses. I am on ASCII. It's a fresh install.
I will attempt to disable Ethernet renaming and get back to you all.
Thanks!

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018, 11:11 KatolaZ <katolaz@???> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 10:46:39AM -0500, Jackman wrote:
> > Good morning!
> >
> > I am trying to use a laptop (Dell Latitude 7390 2-in-1) with Dell's K17A
> > USB-C docking station. It appears that the docking station uses an
> RTL8153
> > chip for Ethernet, and it seems to initialize just fine. Wicd doesn't
> seem
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> it looks like your (USB) dongle needs to use the r8152 kernel driver,
> which is included in the 4.9 kernel image available in ASCII. Are you
> on ASCII, aren't you?
>
> > to recognize it, however. Furthermore, I can't find a node in /dev that
> > appears to align with this device. Therefore, I don't know how to
> configure
> > the device in /etc/network/interfaces, and I don't know how to configure
> > Wicd for it.
>
> network devices have no associated device under /dev (at least in most
> of the unix-like systems descending from either BSD or SysV). So you
> won't see anything under /dev/.
>
> What you might want to look at is instead:
>
> cat /proc/net/dev
>
> >
> > As an additional tidbit, the device gets renamed upon initialization from
> > eth0 to enx00000000 (string of numbers). I don't know if that's relevant,
> > but it's the first time I've seen it.
>
> Are you on ASCII or on Jessie?
>
> HND
>
> KatolaZ
>
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