On Wednesday 08 May 2019 03:49:34 am Joe wrote: > On Tue, 7 May 2019 18:47:50 -0400 > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> 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.
There is no place in that sequence to select TCP/IPv4 on this machine. If ipv6 dhcp fails, you are apparently screwed. And they call this an OS? Not where (and when) I went to school. Computers were 10,000+ 12AU7's and occupied whole floors of buildings. 6 years after I took an 8th grade diploma and started fixing tv's for a living I saw the computer that graded the Iowa test, then considered the equ of the Stanford IQ, scoring a 147 on it. One tabloid sized Harris stream fed press with banks of photocells to read the dots on the paper at about 10 sheets a second. I was a nerd the girls wouldn't touch because I don't think the word had been invented yet. Now after moving to broadcast engineering in the early 60's, 25 some years since with the door placard saying Chief Engineer, I did that till I retired in 2002, so now I'm just another old codger. Careing for my dying of copd wife, the third and at 30 years this fall, the longest. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>