As many laptops nowadays ship without an internal ethernet card, I am using an USB ethernet adapter to connect to my router. This works fine when I am using Fatdog's root account and automatically connects via DHCP when it is plugged in.
However, when I am trying to connect to the network from a non-root user account, the USB adapter does not start automatically, when I plug it in. I can start it with sudo ip link set dev eth0 up
, but it is not obtaining an IP from the router and I cannot get online. I can only assume that this must be a permissions problem that does not allow correct ethernet connectivity as it works in the root account without any manual intervention.
Could you guide me in the right direction how this could be fixed?