dont even try and install any gui stuff. (networking should get setup even with the most minimal setup. Just do a very minimal install test networking (ping) then do a dist upgrade to testing and then installl X stuff.
One thing, but if your networking was working during the install why did you install firmware-realtek. I would try removing that. Linux keeps networking stuff in so many different places now its difficult to know where the setup files are kept. I never venture out of stable nowadays so my advice may be outdated. HTH dan On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 3:50 PM Brad Rogers <b...@fineby.me.uk> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 14:57:47 +0000 > Daniel Harris <mail.dhar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hello Daniel, > > >I would probably try a minimal debian stable (providing it works on your > >new hardware) install and if that works then do a dist upgrade to > >testing. > > I'll keep it in mind, but a previous attempt at installing stable > wouldn't give a graphical login - I found that my nVidia gfx card isn't > supported by stable's nvidia drivers. To be fair, I didn't see any > network issues, but that might have been because I got dropped to a tty > before the boot process got that far. I didn't test for networking > issues on the stable set up - I didn't get that far. > > Thank you. I'll hold off for a while yet. > > -- > Regards _ > / ) "The blindingly obvious is > / _)rad never immediately apparent" > You suck my blood like a leech > Death On Two Legs - Queen >
