Re: Headless Pi 4B problems - continued

On 2025-01-28, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

Well I stick to PIOS simple because it is the documented standard.
Networking is handled by the Network Manager and it gets tricky to set
that up without a console screen/keyboard at least - but there is a
great utility called nmcli I think that 'does everything' once you have
learnt its magic spells.

If you don't like networkmanager, it is easy to switch to the old method
after installation of the base system:

https://github.com/mschwingen/hardware/tree/master/YOGA_GPIB/software

 apt install isc-dhcp-client ifupdown resolvconf
 apt purge modemmanager network-manager ppp avahi-daemon

got me to a state where the classic configuration using
/etc/network/interfaces just works.

To be honest although it is possible to do everything over ssh, the
chances of losing connectivity while messing with the network are high
and a HDMI screen and a USB keyboard are not hard to rig up with the
appropiate adapters.

I had a serial console connected, but that is only activated at a later
step. I sued raspberry pi imager to setup ssh pre-boot, but you can easily
do that using a text editor.

cu
Michael
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