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phil

Member

Registered: 2012-09-22

Posts: 72

netctl usage

I have two questions about netctl:

1. I use netctl-auto@wlan0.service to connect to wifi hotspots. It works, but when I type:

netctl list

It does not show the network, I am connected to (with a star). If I connect manually, it does.

2. When I am connected to some wifi hotspot, the only way to reconnect is to type

ip link set wlan0 down

.

netctl switch-to

or

netctl stop/start

does not work.

Do you also experience these problems?
Thanks for answering.

Archdove

Member

Registered: 2011-09-23

Posts: 118

Re: netctl usage

Make sure you've deactivated any other netctl targets when using netctl-auto.

Me using netctl-auto@wlan0.servcie to auto connect to any wlan0 targets and
netctl-sleep@...service for reconnecting after sleep/suspend

Reconnecting however does not work properly right know and i couln't fild out why yet.

But anyway: use either netctl or netctl-auto. Both wont work properly.

netctl-auto stop wlan0 does the trick for me right know

HalosGhost

Forum Moderator

From: Twin Cities, MN

Registered: 2012-06-22

Posts: 2,097

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Re: netctl usage

This is a known bug.

$ netctl list

does not accurately reflect connections when using the systemd netctl-auto service.  Easy reconnection (unless you want to connect to a specific profile) can be achieved with the following:

# systemctl restart netctl-auto@<wireless_interface>.service

All the best,

-HG

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kelloco2

Member

Registered: 2012-02-13

Posts: 129

Re: netctl usage

When can we expect to solve the bug? It will replace the netcfg, but so far it works poorly. Bug is old. Update to version 1.0-1 does not fix it. Can we propose amendments to the author of this script?

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: netctl usage

Of course you can - post your patches in bug reports and/or feature requests in the bugtracker.