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newsboost

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Registered: 2016-07-24

Posts: 157

[SOLVED] NetworkManager + "Wi-Fi Settings" not working, GNOME desktop

Hi,

I think I more or less INITIALLY screwed up changing to NetworkManager, but at least I think most of that is fixed now. However, it bugs me that the "Wi-Fi Settings"-button doesn't respond at all! I would expect something like illustrated here (between item 2 + 3: Wi-Fi Settings ) to happen, i.e. when that button "Wi-Fi Settings" is pushed, I would expect to see a list of all SSIDs and then I would expect I could input password, see if it WPA2/WEP/whatever info... But nothing happens... At the moment it's okay for me because I have internet access (both wired + wireless) and I can choose WiFi network using command-line:

# nmcli dev wifi
# nmcli dev wifi connect SSID password SSIDpassword

But that's not the right way to do it... Could anyone please help suggest what is wrong or what I could/should try?

Does this look correct?

# systemctl list-unit-files --state=enabled
UNIT FILE                                   STATE  
autovt@.service                             enabled
dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service enabled
dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service  enabled
display-manager.service                     enabled
getty@.service                              enabled
libvirtd.service                            enabled
lm_sensors.service                          enabled
NetworkManager-dispatcher.service           enabled
NetworkManager-wait-online.service          enabled
NetworkManager.service                      enabled
sddm.service                                enabled
virtlockd.socket                            enabled
virtlogd.socket                             enabled
remote-fs.target                            enabled

14 unit files listed.

dmesg doesn't seem to grow, if I click the "WiFi Settings"-button - absolutely nothing happens at all... I'm wondering if the last of "dmesg" has (or could have) anything to do with it or if it looks correct?

[13667.007059] audit: type=1131 audit(1546355501.096:92): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=NetworkManager-dispatcher comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'

I think this line looks a bit suspicious due to all the "?"-marks... Is NetworkManager here sending out a message to me/us, that something is wrong?

I hope you can help, thank you very much!

Last edited by newsboost (2019-01-02 13:49:28)

twelveeighty

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From: Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2011-09-04

Posts: 1,162

Re: [SOLVED] NetworkManager + "Wi-Fi Settings" not working, GNOME desktop

Did you install nm-connection-editor? Maybe tell us *exactly* what you did when you "initially screwed up"?

newsboost

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Registered: 2016-07-24

Posts: 157

Re: [SOLVED] NetworkManager + "Wi-Fi Settings" not working, GNOME desktop

Did you install nm-connection-editor? Maybe tell us *exactly* what you did when you "initially screwed up"?

Yes, nm-connection-editor IS installed.

I had/have some old notes in a text file made for myself (from a previous installation), where I've written down that using network-manager and network-manager-applet is a REALLY good idea for laptops. So just after I installed gnome and (wayland) and decided to use it, I noticed that I didn't have the usual network-manager icon inside Gnome such that I could e.g. quickly change to another WIFI network if I had taken my laptop to another place than where I usually are... I don't exactly remember what I did, but I read that I should have neither "netctl@..." nor "wpa_supplicant" services enabled (the latter however IS running if I use "ps -fe | grep -i wpa", I assume that is okay as I assume it is started by network-manager???). I did something like this:

# pacman -S networkmanager
# pacman -S plasma-nm
# pacman -S network-manager-applet

But not at once... The command "netctl list" didn't show anything (I read I should disable/stop netctl-service to avoid conflict)... So the thing I "screwed up" initially is that I think I rebooted without installing network-manager-applet or maybe without installing nm-connection-editor initially... But these should be installed now... Generally I don't exactly remember what I did initially. So what I "screwed" up I think is mostly the order of installing networkmanager, and probably I have rebooted without having all the network-manager stuff installed... Maybe I did stop/disable netctl, but in any case, from my running services I don't think netctl is a problem... I think something is very wrong with my installation, because if I click "WiFi Settings" absolutely nothing happens - no dialog box pops up. I cannot see/change anything...

Do you think my nm-connection-editor is screwed up? I tried "pacman -S networkmanager plasma-nm network-manager-applet" - just to re-install / re-initialize configuration files. Am I not re-installing correctly, should I use --force flag or?

Please help with suggestions/advice/ideas, I would be grateful for anything that could maybe solve the problem, thanks!

newsboost

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Registered: 2016-07-24

Posts: 157

Re: [SOLVED] NetworkManager + "Wi-Fi Settings" not working, GNOME desktop

Oh, sorry - found out what was/is the problem: I needed to "pacman -S gnome gnome-extra" + reboot, I don't know, for some reason some basic packages was missing or had to be re-installed... Anyway, problem solved, I'll mark this as "SOLVED", thanks!

Atari

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Registered: 2016-04-20

Posts: 35

Re: [SOLVED] NetworkManager + "Wi-Fi Settings" not working, GNOME desktop

Apologies for the necromancing here, just to confirm that installing gnome-keyring indeed solves the issue. This package is part of the group gnome.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,447

Re: [SOLVED] NetworkManager + "Wi-Fi Settings" not working, GNOME desktop

Please don't do that just to confirm what has been basically already established.

Closing this old thread