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LabRicecat

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Registered: 2023-09-10

Posts: 36

[SOLVED] iwctl + NetworkManager silent errors

Hello everyone!

Today for.. no reason that I can see, connecting as usually using

$ iwctl station wlan0 connect <my-network-ssid> --passphrase <pw>

After that, down at the bottom my i3 bar (the default one, still am setting up) tells me

W: ( 92% at <ssid> ) <ip>

Which should indicate that I am connected, but pinging anything, like as I did gnu.org tell me "Temporary failure in name resolution"
iwctl itself does not error in any way. No ouput, exit status is 0. (checked with $?)
I can't think of anything, other than trying to connect to a EAP-PWD secured network using a <essid>.8021x file in /var/lib/iwd/, but I deleted it already and rebooted multiple times. I also tried to switch from NetworkManager to systemd-networkd, but quickly changed back after that caused issued with iwctl not finding the iwd daemon.

Any idea what might cause this? Thanks!!

Last edited by LabRicecat (2023-09-16 14:48:29)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] iwctl + NetworkManager silent errors

You're not supposed to run NM and iwctl concurrently, if you want to use iwd as backend for NM, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … Fi_backend

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LabRicecat

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Registered: 2023-09-10

Posts: 36

Re: [SOLVED] iwctl + NetworkManager silent errors

Oh that fixed my problem instantly, thank you very much!