Hello, For Lan and WLan i use network-manager under XFCE succesfully. Regards Mechtilde Am 23.05.2016 um 08:28 schrieb Adam Borowski: > 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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