This just dawned on me, but should I have dhcpcd running while trying to connect with NetworkManager?
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 6:20 AM, Thomas Haller <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Yves, > > > On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 05:35 -0500, Yves S. Garret wrote: > > > I've already enabled and started NM. I see it with a state of > > "running" when I do systemctl. > > > > > > As for my comment of doing it manually, there is a little tutorial > > that was written for Arch Linux. In it, you can either make the > > connection in a manual fashion or have an another tool it > > automatically for you. > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup#Wireless_management > > If you are using NetworkManager (or wicd, ConnMan, ...), you don't > manually use ip, dhclient, ... (unless you have a good reason to). > > > > > When I start NM, > > Usually, NetworkManager (the deamon) starts at boot time, as you enabled > it with systemctl. What you click on, is a GUI front-end, to tell > NetworkManger what to do. Probably it's nm-applet (Gnome3 and KDE > usually come with different ones). > > > > I go into the top right-hand location and click on the applet and > > select my network. Sometimes I see a window asking for a passphrase > > -- which I enter and click Connect -- and then wait for some sort of > > response. But, the only thing that happens is that the same window > > re-appears. I know that the passphrase is correct (checked many > > times.) > > You should check, that the WiFi connection you are trying to connect is > properly configured. You can right-click on the icon of nm-applet and do > "Edit connections". > > If you cannot figure out whats wrong, it might be helpful to look at the > logfiles and provide more information > > journalctl -b 0 _SYSTEMD_UNIT=NetworkManager.service > > > > > > > > What I ultimately want NM to do is give me the ability to connect to > > various wireless connections (Library, Home, parents Home, etc.) > > without going through the manual setup (as described in the above > > link) of making such a connection. > > Sure, that sounds doable :) > > > > > Thomas > > >
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