Re: Is this a Debian thing, a KDE thing, or something else?
Van Snyder composed on 2025-10-29 18:28 (UTC-0700):
> When I close my laptop, after a few hours it decides to turn off the
> network.
> If I leave it open and the screen is powered off, it decides to turn
> off the network.
> That would be fine if I weren't using it, but I do log into it from my
> desktop, not least to sync files.
> It only started doing this a few months ago.
> Is this a Debian thing, a KDE thing, or something else?
> Is there something I can do about it?
As you are using Plasma, almost certainly your network is /managed/ by
NetworkManager, so presumably a KDE thing. Switching to manual network
configuration should fix it, but whether that's suited to your work habits, or
laptops generally, is another matter. I'm not a laptop user, so all my networking
is statically configured - no managing that I don't do myself, and it's run by
systemd, so always up if booted at least as far as basic.target and/or network.target:
# systemctl list-unit-files | sort | grep net
network-online.target static -
network-pre.target static -
network.target static -
systemd-networkd-persistent-storage.service static -
systemd-networkd.service disabled enabled
systemd-networkd.socket enabled enabled
systemd-networkd-wait-online.service disabled enabled
systemd-networkd-wait-online@.service disabled enabled
systemd-network-generator.service disabled enabled
#
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