I think I should stay with Ubuntu for now, but thanks. I've found it's 
often best to not overcomplicate things.

On 9/23/22 15:54, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> On Fri, 2022-09-23 at 12:04 -0700, T Zack Crawford via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> I am very interested in the answer because my desktop does the same thing if I
>> tell it to hibernate, boot into my windows dual boot, and reboot back into linux.
>> I can regain network access again by hibernating again and booting back into linux
>> directly (no windows). Pretty annoying because it takes a solid 2-5 minutes to
>> shut down when hibernating. At least it still does the job, just with delay.
> 2 to 5 minutes to shut down isn't unusual with systemd. Also, Ubuntu is ultra
> friendly and hardware tolerant, but there's a cost: Layers upon layers upon layers
> of abstraction, making troubleshooting a needle in a haystack. Also, NetworkManager
> is kind of twitchy and overly dependent on dbus.
>
> If you no longer need the training wheels Ubuntu provides, I suggest you switch to
> Devuan, or if you're comfortable with a close to the metal Linux with an excellent
> rolling release packaging system, Void Linux. Both of these get rid of systemd.
>
> I suggest you use runit as your init system: It's much better than sysvinit. Devuan
> has a package for it and Void comes with runit straight from the factory. If you use
> Devuan, you might want to use sysvinit as your PID1, and then supervise your daemons
> with runit.
>
> If your computer has a fixed IP address, you can set it with the upnet.sh
> shellscript performed as the last thing in the boot (put it in rc.local). For the
> long version of upnet.sh that's good to use with Qemu virtual machines, see
> http://troubleshooters.com/linux/qemu/nobs.htm#hostnetworking . For a short and to
> the point upnet.sh, see the following and modify as necessary:
>
>
> =======================================
> #!/bin/sh
>
> # MAKE SURE IP FORWARDING IS ENABLED
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>
> # DEAL WITH HOSTNAME AND LOCALHOST
> hostname=`grep -v "^\s*#"  /etc/hostname | head -n1`
> ip link set dev lo up
>
> # UNDO ANY POSSIBLE STUFF FROM PREVIOUS UPNET.SH
> ip link set dev tap0 down
> brctl delif br0 tap0
> ip link del tap0
> ip link set dev br0 down
> ip addr del 192.168.0.102/24 dev br0
> ip addr del 192.168.0.2/24 dev br0
> brctl delbr br0
> ip link set dev enp40s0 down
> ip addr del 192.168.0.102/24 dev enp40s0
> ip addr del 192.168.0.2/24 dev enp40s0
>
> # BRING UP enp40s0
> #ip addr add 192.168.0.2/24 dev enp40s0
> #ip addr add 192.168.0.102/24 dev enp40s0
> ip link set dev enp40s0 up
> #ip route add default via 192.168.0.1
>
> ### GET br0 UP AND RUNNING WITH RIGHT IP ADDRESSES
> ip link add name br0 type bridge
> ip link set dev enp40s0 master br0
> ip addr add 192.168.0.2/24 dev br0
> ip addr add 192.168.0.102/24 dev br0
> ip link set dev br0 up
> ip route add default via 192.168.0.1
>
> ### DO THE TUN/TAP STUFF
> ip tuntap add tap0 mode tap
> brctl addif br0 tap0
> #ip addr add 192.168.0.66/24 dev tap0
> ip link set dev tap0 up
> ==================================
>
> The nice thing about the preceding is it's portable between distros. You can even
> use it in Ubuntu to restore your static network connectivity if if vanishes. Note
> that if you're not using taps or bridges you can eliminate a lot of it, but you'll
> need to uncomment a couple things. Obviously, you'll need to change IP addresses to
> your desired network device name, static IP and default route.
>
> HTH,
>
> SteveT
>
>
>
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