Hello,
For the first time, I'm having problems installing Debian testing on new
hardware;
Asus TUF X570 Plus mobo with onboard Realtek network L8200A i/f
As things stand, it /seems/ that the boot process is waiting for the
network interface to come up, before proceeding to start the SDDM log in
manager. Switching to tty2 and logging in would appear to bear this
out, as attempting to ping anything other than LAN machinery results in
'No route to host' reports.
The package firmware-realtek from testing has been installed.
The OS was installed using a net-install CD, so clearly, the network
card is working. Having never previously encountered network i/f issues
myself, I'm really rather at a loss as to how I should proceed.
/etc/network/interfaces reads (comments & empty lines omitted);
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source /etc/networks/interfaces.d/*
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
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/etc/networks/interfaces.d/ is an empty directory.
For the sake of full disclosure, I see this;
[FAILED] Failed to start NVIDIA Persistence Daemon
during the boot process. I suspect it has little bearing on the issue
I'm experiencing, but mention it 'just in case'.
My $SEARCH foo has turned up nothing recent, only stuff from 2002, 2009
or thereabouts.
IDK how to proceed. Ideas and pointers (even moral support) sought and
welcomed.
Thank you.
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