Re: trying to use wireless not from gnome... what's the incantation?
On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 08:42:12PM -0800, Britton Kerin wrote:
> Got a new laptop after 10 years of excellent stable ancient debian,
> and my wireless works from gnome, and only from gnome. Unfortunately
> I find that gnome3 is not for me. I've been trying dwm.
>
> No combination of nmcli ifconfig iw ip rfkill unblock wpa_supplicant
> /etc/network/interfaces etc. that I've tried makes wireless work
> outside of gnome, and I've googled much and tried many of them. It
> seems like a waste of time, since clearly nm-applet and/or
> NetworkManager knows the magic spell.
If for whatever reason NetworkManager doesn't work for you, and you want an
easy to use alternative, I'd recommend wicd.
Using low-level tools can indeed be tricky, so while they're more powerful
than anything NM or wicd can do, they're an overkill and a waste of learning
time if what you want is regular use of a single interface.
> I'm posting here both in hope of a solution, and because this seems
> like a bug. How come this only works from gnome? nmcli in particular
> looks like it's trying to be a general-purpose solution, but somehow
> it too only works from gnome.
NM is closely tied to Gnome so regressions in non-Gnome use aren't
surprising.
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