Hi David,

Is this a laptop, or a stationary desktop that can be given a static IP
address. If the latter, you can always use a shellscript to bring it
up. Yeah, it's not the "right way", but it gets you clear of all the
magic that each distro does to bring up the Internet, and their magic
is always different from that of the other distros.

SteveT

Steve Litt

http://444domains.com


David Niklas via Dng said on Fri, 4 Jul 2025 00:26:35 -0400

>Hello,
>I just installed Devuan Daedalus. It connected to the net just fine,
>but after installing a bunch of packages (too many to count), I
>rebooted the system and the network is not brought up correctly.
>
>I compared my current sysinit list of services to the new systems and
>there isn't really anything standing out. I found /etc/init.d/network
>was not executable. When I made it so and after re-executed it as root
>(/etc/init.d/network start), I have full networking. This is repeatable
>across reboots.
>
>To be clear, I cannot ping my router when the net is down, but the
>iface gets it's correct address and I can ping it as well as the lo
>interface. The HW is an Intel I225-V rev 03. Even when the net is down
>the kernel sees the interface HW and the light on my switch indicating
>that the port is plugged in is lit.
>
>Ping says:
>% ping 192.168.1.1
>Network is unreachable.
>
>I run bootlogd, so I examined the network startup:
>Thu Jul 3 XX:XX:XX 2025: Mounting local filesystems...done.
>Thu Jul 3 XX:XX:XX 2025: Activating swapfile swap, if any...done.
>Thu Jul 3 XX:XX:XX 2025: Cleaning up temporary files....
>Thu Jul 3 XX:XX:XX 2025: Starting Setting kernel variables: sysctl.
>Thu Jul 3 XX:XX:XX 2025: Configuring network interfaces...error: eth0
>: eth0: up cmd '/etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-autoipd' failed: returned 2
>(Error: Device for nexthop is not up.
>Thu Jul 3 XX:XX:XX 2025: )
>Thu Jul 3 XX:XX:XX 2025: error: main exception: no ifaces found
>matching given allow lists
>Thu Jul 3 XX:XX:XX 2025: done.
>Thu Jul 3 XX:XX:XX 2025: Cleaning up temporary files....
>Thu Jul 3 XX:XX:XX 2025: Setting up ALSA...done.
>
>When running:
>% sudo /etc/init.d/network start
>Configuring network interfaces...error: main exception: no ifaces found
>matching given allow lists
>done.
>%
>
>/etc/network/interfaces is below for your viewing pleasure.
>
>
>I tried searching online without much success.
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks!
>
>
>#################################################
># This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
># and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
>
>source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*
>
># The loopback network interface
>auto lo
>iface lo inet loopback
>
># The primary network interface
>auto eth0
>iface eth0 inet dhcp
>#################################################
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