http://sn.1w6.org/file/mk-20140921T151602-ragjrtz.html
@mcscx thanks for the help and 'handholding'! @erkanyilmaz, too! (the network manager applet for the tray is still missing - I may hav to reinstall that...). the whole thing was complicated by the fact that apparently also a slight error in fstab can trip up systemd as well - so it was a situation with several things combined - no wonder it was hard to figure out