<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><blockquote style="font-family:sans-serif"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Hmmm. Want to tell what file that was?</div></div></blockquote></div><div>I'm not at home at the moment. I found by comparing 2 installs, and I couldn't quite believe it when it fixed it. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">From a quick Google, I think is this file, located under /etc... and /var....</div><div dir="auto"><pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.8em;padding:10px;border:0px;font-size:13px;line-height:inherit;font-family:consolas,menlo,monaco,"lucida console","liberation mono","dejavu sans mono","bitstream vera sans mono","courier new",monospace;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:normal;background-color:rgb(240,240,240);max-height:300px;color:rgb(12,13,14)"><code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:consolas,menlo,monaco,"lucida console","liberation mono","dejavu sans mono","bitstream vera sans mono","courier new",monospace;vertical-align:baseline;max-height:300px">10-globally-managed-devices.conf</code></pre><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/882806/ethernet-device-not-managed">https://askubuntu.com/questions/882806/ethernet-device-not-managed</a></div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto">I'll have another look when I get home.</div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto">On 2 Oct 2017 6:40 pm, "Bmarsh" <<a href="mailto:bmarsh@bmarsh.com" target="_blank">bmarsh@bmarsh.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="m_-2789675778408239837quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div><div id="m_-2789675778408239837m_4749193741736897688newMessage"> </div><br><br><br><blockquote type="cite"><table> <tbody><tr><td valign="baseline"><b>From: </b></td><td valign="baseline">David <<a href="mailto:david@hackbinary.com" target="_blank">david@hackbinary.com</a>></td></tr> <tr><td valign="baseline"><b>To: </b></td><td valign="baseline"><a href="mailto:bmarsh@bmarsh.com" target="_blank">bmarsh@bmarsh.com</a>, Kubuntu user technical support <<a href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.co<wbr>m</a>></td></tr> <tr><td valign="baseline"><b>Subject: </b></td><td valign="baseline">Re: 17.10 network changes</td></tr> <tr><td valign="baseline"><b>Date: </b></td><td valign="baseline">10/2/17, 1:14 PM</td></tr></tbody></table><br><br> <div dir="auto"><br>Hi, <div dir="auto"><div class="m_-2789675778408239837quoted-text"><br><div dir="auto">Two things to check:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">1. What is the name of your network device? I had an update change the ethernet device name from eth0 to enp3s1 or some such nonsense that is supposed to give consistent naming even if I add in additional adapters into my laptop. You can grep through dmesg to find out. Or you can find the name out when you ip addr .</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div dir="auto">Thanks for the reply. Name is enp3s0 and has been that since 16.10. And that name is picked up by dhcp but I can’t get a static address assigned like I could in 16.10</div><div class="m_-2789675778408239837quoted-text"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">2. Is network maanger running?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div dir="auto">Yes, and I’ve played with starting and stopping it as well as a lot of other tricks. </div><div class="m_-2789675778408239837quoted-text"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You can force network maanger to use the interraces file. The debian site tells you how. </div><a href="https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkManager" target="_blank">https://wiki.debian.org/Networ<wbr>kManager</a></div></div><br><br>Will take a look at this.<div class="m_-2789675778408239837quoted-text"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">3. Okay, I lied there is a third point. Have a looked through your syslog to find out what's happening?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div dir="auto">Using dmesg I see that enp3s0 is shown as up and down many times during startup... so maybe it is a timing problem. Will do some more looking at syslog. I WAS able to use ifconfig to assign the static address that is in the interfaces file and that works as a temp fix so it indicates everything is working except the use of the interfaces file. But this problem is a showstopper as far as I am concerned.</div><div class="m_-2789675778408239837quoted-text"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Good luck. Thsee things are frustrating. I had a similar problem getting network manager to work. The problem was a certain zero byte file was missing.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div dir="auto">Hmmm. Want to tell what file that was?</div><div class="m_-2789675778408239837elided-text"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">David<br><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 Oct 2017 01:27, "Bmarsh" <<a href="mailto:bmarsh@bmarsh.com" target="_blank">bmarsh@bmarsh.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="m_-2789675778408239837m_4749193741736897688quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <br><div id="m_-2789675778408239837m_4749193741736897688m_5867126987121531732newMessage"> Thanks... took a quick look but didn’t see anything that seemed like the problem. Will keep looking.<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite"><table> <tbody><tr><td valign="baseline"><b>From: </b></td><td valign="baseline">Valorie Zimmerman <<a href="mailto:valorie.zimmerman@gmail.com" target="_blank">valorie.zimmerman@gmail.com</a>></td></tr> <tr><td valign="baseline"><b>To: </b></td><td valign="baseline">Kubuntu user technical support <<a href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.co<wbr>m</a>></td></tr> <tr><td valign="baseline"><b>Subject: </b></td><td valign="baseline">Re: 17.10 network changes</td></tr> <tr><td valign="baseline"><b>Date: </b></td><td valign="baseline">10/1/17, 7:06 PM</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="m_-2789675778408239837m_4749193741736897688elided-text"><br><br> <p>Hi Bruce, <br> <br>On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Bruce Marshall <<a href="mailto:bmarsh@bmarsh.com" target="_blank">bmarsh@bmarsh.com</a>> wrote: <br>> Does anyone have a clue as to what changes were made to network setup in <br>> Artful?? I've been using static IP addresses within my network for years <br>> but now the system seems to be ignoring anything in the <br>> /etc/network/interfaces file. And networking.service is gone which would <br>> be ok if everything else worked... <br>> <br>> All I can get is a DHCP address from within my network. Been looking at <br>> documentation for any changes to networking but haven't found any yet. <br>> <br>> <br>> Any help would be appreciated.... <br> <br>I've seen a few people complaining about this, but it seems a rare <br>issue. There were some networking changes by the Ubuntu devels, so you <br>should perhaps search Launchpad for bug reports and add your details <br>there. <br> <br>Kubuntu doesn't handle networking beyond providing the Plasma widgets <br>that display what's going on; that is all done at the systemd and <br>networkmanager level, by the core Ubuntu developers. <br> <br>Valorie <br> <br>-- <br><a href="http://about.me/valoriez" target="_blank">http://about.me/valoriez</a> <br> <br>-- <br>kubuntu-users mailing list <br><a href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <br>Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm<wbr>an/listinfo/kubuntu-users</a> <br></p></div></blockquote></div><br>--<br> kubuntu-users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm<wbr>an/listinfo/kubuntu-users</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>--<br> kubuntu-users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm<wbr>an/listinfo/kubuntu-users</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div>