On Tue, 7 May 2019 18:47:50 -0400 Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings all; > > First it doesn't have a clue what to do with a wired network. > It sure wants to hook up to all the neighborhoods wifi, all of which > are secured. > Second, its like stretch seems locked to ipv6 but its ipv4 for at > least a hundred miles in any direction from my 10-20 in North > Central WV. > > Third, I can't find a place to enter a netmask route or gateway, its > been sleeping with dhcp for way too long. > > I finally find what sort of looks like the old xp network configurator > but it error beeps at me to the entry of any address on my local net > that isn't already taken. > > So how do I convince this brand new unibody HP to use a static wired > network setup? > > In the FWIW category, it takes winders 10 about 10x longer to boot > than any of my linux machines. Makes me wonder if they should have > named it window-0.1 because it is boringly slow. > Shouldn't. I have a W10 netbook, though I'm not familiar with it, it had Debian installed within a week. Boot (from definitely off) is less than thirty seconds. Booting should not be held up by network issues. Open up the properties of the Ethernet adaptor, select TCP/IPv4, Properties, then untick the automatic options. You should be able to enter values in the address, mask and gateway boxes, and specify DNS servers below. It shouldn't need a reboot. -- Joe
