Le 04/08/2018 à 19:30, David Bruce a écrit :
> I'm just getting back to Debian and Linux after a few years' absence -
> sorry if this is a simplistic question. I installed testing/Buster on
> a newly built desktop machine that has both onboard gigabit ethernet
> and a wireless Atheros NIC. Both devices were recognized during the
> install, and I set the wired interface as the default to minimize any
> connectivity issues.
What do you mean by "set as the default" ?
> Now my machine is up and running, and I want the wireless device to
> always be brought up and used as the default.
What do you mean by "used as the default" ?
> Within KDE, it connects
> to my home network without issues as if the machine were a laptop, but
> it does not appear to have an active connection when KDE is "asleep".
What do you mean by "KDE is asleep" ? Suspended ?
If the laptop is suspended, of course all functions are, including the
network.
> In particular, if I reboot it, I can't ssh into it from my MacBook
> until I sign into KDE, and if KDE goes to sleep, I lose the ability to
> ssh in within a few minutes. I'm not sure any of this is really a
> function of KDE, but the behavior is certainly correlated.
It depends on the network manager used by KDE and the connection settings.
It may set up the connection at startup time, only when a session is
opened by any user, or only by the user which configured the connection.