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 [email protected] disabled enabled systemd-network-generator.service disabled enabled # -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata
