If netplan is causing problems just get rid of it and use one of the older methods.
Just add your devices in /etc/network/interfaces and disable network manager and netplan. FWIW Slackware doesnt bother with predictable network names. We still use eth0, eth1 and so on. You have other options. -Ben Sent from ProtonMail mobile -------- Original Message -------- On Jul 8, 2021, 7:50 AM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > On Thu, Jul 8, 2021, 09:16 Chuck Hast <wch...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> For a desktop network manager does the magic. It sets things >> up for netplan, the yaml file is the netplan config file. >> >> But server does not use network manager because it is >> CLI only and NM is gui. It does us something called Subiquity >> to set the network stuff up, but once done it appears that you >> have to go in and manually modify the yaml file and then tell >> netplan to try it. If it flies you tell it to accept it. >> . >> > > If you use NM on server - there is nmtui - ncurse based text gui to do > basic config. > >>