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dolphin_oracle wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 1:19 pm do you have a previously existing ~/.local/share/Steam folder? I'm thinking that maybe its looking for a network connection that is not longer present.

dolphin_oracle wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 1:46 pm this is a dumb question, but did you say "yes" to the license agreement?

Stevo wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 3:49 pm Off-topic, but you don't need those two Waterfox repos, since we have it in our own repo and it's installable in the MX Package Installer.

timkb4cq wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 7:31 pm You have a Realtek 8111h ethernet chipset. Realtek suggests using the non-free r8168 driver for that chipset instead of the open source r8169 driver present in the kernel.

To build the r8168 driver, install the r8168-dkms package. This package builds the non-free driver and disables the one you are now using.
I would use

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sudo apt-get r8168-dkms

because you will see the messages as the driver auto-builds. It should work - but I haven't tried it with the newer kernels, and if the messages show that it failed you will want to

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dpkg -P 8168-dkms

before you reboot, lest you be left with no network driver at all.

Update 21:03
The r8168-dkms version 8.043.02 in debian stretch will not build with kernel 4.19. I have backported the buster version for the MX repo. I tested it with the same kernel version you have and it does build a working driver. Since I didn't have your particular problem I can't guarantee it will solve it but it does function normally on my similar realtek 8111 chipset.

Check to make sure your mirror has r8168-dkms version 8.046.00-1~mx17 before trying to install the package.

timkb4cq wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 7:31 pm You have a Realtek 8111h ethernet chipset. Realtek suggests using the non-free r8168 driver for that chipset instead of the open source r8169 driver present in the kernel.

To build the r8168 driver, install the r8168-dkms package. This package builds the non-free driver and disables the one you are now using.
I would use

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sudo apt-get r8168-dkms

because you will see the messages as the driver auto-builds. It should work - but I haven't tried it with the newer kernels, and if the messages show that it failed you will want to

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dpkg -P 8168-dkms

before you reboot, lest you be left with no network driver at all.

Update 21:03
The r8168-dkms version 8.043.02 in debian stretch will not build with kernel 4.19. I have backported the buster version for the MX repo. I tested it with the same kernel version you have and it does build a working driver. Since I didn't have your particular problem I can't guarantee it will solve it but it does function normally on my similar realtek 8111 chipset.

Check to make sure your mirror has r8168-dkms version 8.046.00-1~mx17 before trying to install the package.