On Friday 22 June 2018 09:30:24 Stefan Krusche wrote: > Am Freitag 22 Juni 2018 schrieb William Morder: > > So here's the problem: I got my network working reasonably well, except > > for one glitch, that it automatically connects at startup. I've tried > > wicd and tdenetworkmanager, as well as the knetworkmanager. Also I've > > dabbled with pretty much every other network management tool, and nothing > > changes. I set the manager so that it does not connect automatically > > (which worked fine for me in Debian Jessie), but now it keeps resetting > > the configuration, and automatically connects on startup. > > > > After I am up and running, I am able to connect and disconnect with few > > problems, but this is really annoying. > > > > Is it better to change the configuration file in one of these locations? > > /etc/network/interfaces > > /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf > > Hello Bill, > > in case I understood correctly and you don't want to connect to the > internet at boot time, have you tried this in "/etc/default/networking"?: > > # Set to 'no' to skip interfaces configuration on boot > #CONFIGURE_INTERFACES=yes > > Regards, > Stefan That may be what I was looking for. I overlooked the folder, I suppose, because it had the nondescript name "default" ... but there's a lot of other interesting stuff in there. I might get lost, and may wish to experiment with modifications of some other programs and services. All the web pages I searched pointed to those other two locations, but they didn't solve the problem. I'll report on my results. Thanks much! Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting