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[Sheflug] Changing distro woes
Hi
I decided to check out Debian etch but mucked up my booting procedures so now can only boot into Debian. All stuff is in a different partition and I did do backups so I can retrieve data.
Howvere I am finding a few things more than exceedingly irritating. In fact I am fairly well at the spitting feathers and all sorts of nasty things about it ...
I have three nics on this card but only want one to come up.
Now, for most distros I have used, including SuSE, Ubuntu and BSD, this isn't an issue. It's no hardship to them to manage to bring up one interface, statically defined in network/interfaces, with its default routing info. And leave the other two alone!!!
I have tried to stop this distro from deciding that eth2 needs to be bought up in half-duplex mode and merrily assigning it a 169.254/16 network address. But it defintely has other ideas and consistently insists on having that interface up - doesn't matter how - half duplex mode'll do.
The routing table is also not built properly so that, on a reboot I have to manually set the route. Every time.
The network stuff seems to be associated with something called NetworkManager (from Redhat??) and I have something called nm-applet bringing up a "you are connected" message and the info is about the eth2 interface. (No route and no way out but hey nm-applet says you are connectwed so you must be ....)
Lastly, my favourite desktop app is kde not gnome - an interface which actually really irritates me. I have no idea why I find the gnome interface so aannoying but I do.
Despite having stopped the gdm from being loaded in the relevant rcn.d dir ..... and setting the default-display manager to kdm .... I get gnome Every time.
Any suggestions on hpow to get Debian etch to run as configured?
Regards
Lesley
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