On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 12:42 -0500, Tim McDonough wrote: > On 9/8/2016 12:08 PM, David wrote: > > > > I am working with a Raspberry PI running Jessie and I'm not happy > > about > > the solutions I found to change it from DHCP to a fixed IP address. > > > > Editing the file /etc/dhcpcd.conf does not seem to work correctly. > > > > Can I go back to the old method of editing /etc/network/interfaces > > > > Or is there a better way of setting a fixed IP on Jessie? > > Raspbian Jessie (not Debian Jessie) uses systemd by default. I found > the > following instructions worked well on my R-Pi 3 board: > > <http://www.circuitbasics.com/how-to-set-up-a-static-ip-on-the-raspbe > rry-pi/> > > I too found it really confusing that many of the files we formerly > used > to configure networking are still present but have no effect. I do > not > know what all is involved in re-configuring to not use this newer > method. > > Tim > Thank you for the replies.
Firstly an apology, I did not realise there was a Debian Jessie and a Raspbian Jessie. I'm working with Raspbian Jessie. Having seen Tim's email I did some further searching and found some suggestions which are to remove the daemon dhcpcd and edit the /etc/network/interfaces file. David.