Re: [gentoo-user] Handbook and question about manual network setup

2024-04-19 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Friday, 19 April 2024 17:20:44 BST Dale wrote: >> Matt Connell wrote: >>> On Fri, 2024-04-19 at 09:05 -0500, Dale wrote: Basically, I want to be able to start/stop/restart enp3s0 as a service and have it in a runlevel. >>> You should just need to create a symlink at

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbook and question about manual network setup

2024-04-19 Thread Michael
On Friday, 19 April 2024 18:04:57 BST Dale wrote: > I'm missing something. I don't think you are. Shutdown your main rig. Pull the ethernet cable. Reboot. If the main rig's config is the same as the old rig, AND the router addressing is analogous on both PCs, THEN their behaviour and

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbook and question about manual network setup

2024-04-19 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2024-04-19 at 17:34 +0100, Michael wrote: > Configure static IP addresses for all your LAN devices on your home > router.  Then set your devices to use DHCP to obtain an address from > the router when they come up.  With a large number of devices which > often change (e.g. guests in a

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbook and question about manual network setup

2024-04-19 Thread Michael
On Friday, 19 April 2024 15:05:47 BST Dale wrote: > Anyway, while investigating this, I realized the network setup is not > like on my old rig. Heck, I couldn't even figure out how to restart it > other than switching to the boot runlevel and back to default, or > rebooting. After a bit, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbook and question about manual network setup

2024-04-19 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2024-04-19 at 09:05 -0500, Dale wrote: > Basically, I want to be able to start/stop/restart enp3s0 as a > service and have it in a runlevel.  You should just need to create a symlink at /etc/init.d/net.enp3s0 that points to /etc/init.d/net.lo and then you can do the usual rc-service stuff

[gentoo-user] Handbook and question about manual network setup

2024-04-19 Thread Dale
Howdy, I'm playing around with my NAS box again.  I ran into a network issue.  I sorta forgot I unplugged the network cable so obviously, it made it difficult to ssh into the thing from my main rig.  After hooking up a monitor and keyboard, I found the problem and plugged the network cable back

SOLVED: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting WiFi to work

2024-04-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 9 April 2024 14:23:31 BST I wrote: > I want to move my Intel i5 NUC box to a place where Ethernet is not > available, nor like to become so. That means I have to get WiFi working, > but I've had no success so far. The wiki pages are many, confusing and > contradictory, so I'd like the

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbook and question about manual network setup

2024-04-19 Thread Dale
Matt Connell wrote: > On Fri, 2024-04-19 at 09:05 -0500, Dale wrote: >> Basically, I want to be able to start/stop/restart enp3s0 as a >> service and have it in a runlevel.  > You should just need to create a symlink at /etc/init.d/net.enp3s0 that > points to /etc/init.d/net.lo and then you can do

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbook and question about manual network setup

2024-04-19 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Friday, 19 April 2024 15:05:47 BST Dale wrote: > >> Anyway, while investigating this, I realized the network setup is not >> like on my old rig. Heck, I couldn't even figure out how to restart it >> other than switching to the boot runlevel and back to default, or >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbook and question about manual network setup

2024-04-19 Thread Michael
On Friday, 19 April 2024 17:26:43 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Friday, 19 April 2024 15:05:47 BST Dale wrote: > >> Anyway, while investigating this, I realized the network setup is not > >> like on my old rig. Heck, I couldn't even figure out how to restart it > >> other than switching

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbook and question about manual network setup

2024-04-19 Thread Michael
On Friday, 19 April 2024 17:20:44 BST Dale wrote: > Matt Connell wrote: > > On Fri, 2024-04-19 at 09:05 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> Basically, I want to be able to start/stop/restart enp3s0 as a > >> service and have it in a runlevel. > > > > You should just need to create a symlink at