The Radxa Debian distribution does not configure the onboard Ethernet controller right?

#1

Hi @RadxaYuntian ,

On a fresh Rock5B installation, if I understand correctly, the onboard Ethernet controller comes unconfigured right?

I.e. DHCP client has not been pre-set for it.

That there is no configuration is evidenced by that the /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ directory is empty.

I am quite sure that DHCP client was default behavior before, so I guess you changed it recently.

Thanks

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A horrible failure report in latest Radxa Debian - no networking due to kernel, NetworkManager or other component broken. ifupdown a fix?
#2

We did not change this. While yes, the network is not pre-configured, NetworkManager should automatically pick it up and use DHCP on it.

Please verify with a fresh reinstall.

#3

Oh dear, OK. This was a fresh install.

I did get the DHCP client working via manual configuration only.

For completeness: The device has two NIC:s, one I225 which NetworkManager called “Wired connection 1”, and the onboard R8125 NetworkManager called “Wired connection 2”. I guess that not should matter though.

(I had a total failure with extending the NetworkManager configuration from only DHCP client on 1 interface only, to do that + do fixed IP on another interface too. NetworkManager bugs, kernel bugs or other bugs crushed the networking on the machine so nothing worked - asked you about this in a separate thread: A horrible failure report in latest Radxa Debian - no networking due to kernel, NetworkManager or other component broken. ifupdown a fix? )