I'll keep this in mind and Thomas' recommendation of disabling IPv6 in case I have future issues. Many thanks to everyone!
Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 31, 2014, at 9:37, Nate Pleasant <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 21:12:19 -0500 >> From: "Yves S. Garret" <[email protected]> >> To: Thomas Haller <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Fwd: Having a hard time with NetworkManager on ArchLinux >> Message-ID: >> <CAJ=2b05oDen-p3rKWr0E=xjnblj1+oc4txwhyfqyo_02-ed...@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> Ok, some good news. I'm now typing this e-mail on my laptop through my >> wireless! > Glad it's working for you now :) >> >> >> I rebooted my machine and then proceeded to re-connect using NetworkManager >> and got a connection. I don't know exactly why, but I'm inclined to >> believe that it has to do with the fact that I removed some previously set >> state (perhaps having dhcpcd release the wlp3s0 resource after rebooting?) >> and had NM do the setup that it needed to do. > NetworkManager, dhcpcd, and netctl are all applications designed to > control your network connections. Having more than one of these applications > running at the same time is definitely what was causing the issue. It's like > having three children fighting over the same toy (maybe not the best > allegory). Since NetworkManager is working for you now, I would recommend > disabling any netctl or dhcpcd systemd services you have on your system. >> >> 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 >>> >>> >>> > > -- > Nate > Nathaniel J. Pleasant | Accelerated Concepts > www.acceleratedconcepts.com
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