Having issues switching between Ethernet and WiFi on laptop using default network manager

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When I plug in ethernet, it doesn’t automatically switch from WiFi to ethernet, and I have to manually switch this in network adapters menu. To fix this issue, I switched to more simple graphical user interface, and install the network-manager-gnome to manage my network connections. I found this simplified things for me, and connecting WiFi is much easier. Is it possible to add this to the software install repository as an option? If not, I can install this after installations.

For those who would like to use the Gnome Network Manager it is:

sudo apt install network-manager-gnome

Once installed, rename /etc/network/interfaces to something else, like interfacesold. This was a recommendation so the default network adapter no longer manages the network connections.

Once done, reboot the computer, and you will see the networking icon in the taskbar to the bottom right of your screen.

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I don’t think it’s worth it. It conflicts with the default ifupdown network config, so parts of the dietpi scripts will not work anymore.

And when I look into the stats, only around 10% to 20% of the user base is using a desktop environment. And on top of that the edge case of using WiFi and ethernet in parallel, it will shrink even more down.

There were also similair discussion in the past, like: No wifi / ethernet monitor in tray - #2 by Joulinar

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Thanks for the reply. For the majority of my installs I still use the ifupdown, but for those who are less tech savy, I perfer the network-manager-gnome for simplicity.

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Is there a log file I can check for script errors that maybe caused by switching the network manager. Thanks a lot for your input.

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If you use any dietpi script and it fails at some point you will get an interactive error message. Like if you try now to change the network config with dietpi-config it will fail I guess.

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When go into dietpi-config, everything seems to work fine, except for when I try to go into network adapters, which is to be expected since I’m using network-manager instead of ifupdown. It will not load the adapters screen, but it doesn’t give an error message either. The window to dietpi-config just disappears. I can get into all the other options in dietpi-config without any issue, which is nice.

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Dietpi is my perferred Linux OS for it’s simple, and customizable installation process, and I love how small this distro is. Backups are usually done in under a minute, Bottom line, It’s very simple and yet very functional. Love the work being done on this!

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