Hi. Sorry, I am very beginner to Linux OS, but I have spent 6 hours today and was not able to figure this out.
Some INFO:
- So, I installed Kicksecure from Kicksecure ISO following this guide kicksecure . com/wiki/ISO and pressed “Install to hardrive” and installed it to my SSD. During installation my internet cable from my home router was plugged in (dunno if that matters)
What is the problem?
- After installation finished, I booted the Kicksecure OS and everything seem to work, except my internet from my Ethernet cable.
Note: I tried plugging a wireless card and the internet would instantly work via WIFI (after plugging i did apt-get update && upgrade). Also, on other OS on same PC, my internet through cable would work instantly. I guess that it is something with Kicksecure settings that is not working for me.
What did I do?
Well since I am a noob I was searching and trying different suggested ideas, mainly from Debian 12 (bookworm).
- First thing i noticed I did not have /etc/network/interfaces so I tried creating that with different settings like:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
that only made my “Ethernet: wired connection 1” disappear in my nm-connection-editor. So, I removed that and started searching again.Then I read all of this forums.whonix . org/t/kicksecure-network-configuration/8985/52 and my head started to hurt. But what i understood (and maybe that is wrong) that network on Kicksecure is configured in their own unique way, not like Debian 12 /etc/network/interfaces. That realization did not help me much tho. I then noticed my connection did not have any IPv4, only IPv6. So I tried manually imagining what my IP could look like if it was static, since usually everything is DHCP. So I tried adding in my NetworkManager Applet
IP Address: 192.168.1.15
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.254
DNS servers: 192.168.1.254 (also tried 8.8.8.8)
All that did was - that instead of ping 8.8.8.8 Network unreachable I started getting
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 58 (84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.1.15 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
Which as you can probably now tell was a progress for me. Anyway, but I am kinda stuck here and don’t know what to do. Here is how my ifconfig -a looks like:
[user ~]% ifconfig -a
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.15 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::de2e:a11c:5001:d8b5 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether ac:22:0b:cc:b3:3e txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 71 bytes 5186 (5.0 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 1 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 4962 bytes 323368 (315.7 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 20 memory 0xf7300000-f7320000
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 256733 bytes 553743564 (528.0 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 256733 bytes 553743564 (528.0 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
Also I dont understand how to restart my network in Kicksecure, I tried:
sudo systemctl restart networking
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
/usr/bin/systemctl restart networking
sudo service networking restart
but nothing seems to worked, so I had to reboot my OS after yet another “new brilliant idea” that i had 
that what hell looks like xD especially with Luks encryption -.-
Please excuse me for all this emotional spam, I am tired, frustrated, I don’t know what I am doing, but I am trying… well any tips where to keep digging would be much appreciated.
P.S @Patric, I am very sorry that you have to deal with dumb users like me 