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nextstopmars

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Registered: 2015-11-25

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[SOLVED]How to enable network manager in Xfce4?

Every time I have to connect to wifi using wifi-menu from the terminal.To switch to Network manager I have installed networkmanager and the nm-applet but the problem is I can see the icon but when I click on the icon it shows "Network manager is not running..".

When I try to enable it using :
systemctl start NetworkManager.service

I get the following output:
Failed to start NetworkManager.service: Unit NetworkManager.service not found

Any help?

Last edited by nextstopmars (2016-06-20 15:38:15)

madpierre

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Registered: 2016-05-27

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Re: [SOLVED]How to enable network manager in Xfce4?

Sorry, can't help much with NetworkManager. May I suggest wicd and wicd-gtk?

Docbroke

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Registered: 2015-06-13

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Re: [SOLVED]How to enable network manager in Xfce4?

If you are already using wifi-menu, just install netctl, it can use profile generated by wifi-menu.
You can then enable your profile with "sudo netctl enable <profile-name>", you can look for generated profiles with "netctl list"

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED]How to enable network manager in Xfce4?

@OP: Please post the output of:

systemctl list-unit-files --state=enabled
pacman -Q networkmanager

Note that using `systemctl start` does *not* enable a .service to start at boot, please read `man systemctl`

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JohnBobSmith

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Re: [SOLVED]How to enable network manager in Xfce4?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … nager#Xfce enjoy.

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Re: [SOLVED]How to enable network manager in Xfce4?

I have installed networkmanager

When I try to enable it using :
systemctl start NetworkManager.service

One simply does not enable a service by installing a package.
One simply does not start a service that hasn't been enabled first.

The magical incantation that thou shalt enter in the almighty spell executor is:

systemctl enable NetworkManager.service

and then:

systemctl start NetworkManager.service

as in the blessed books was written.

nextstopmars

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Registered: 2015-11-25

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Re: [SOLVED]How to enable network manager in Xfce4?

Reinstalling and then enabling and starting the service of networkmanager package solved the issue.

Thanks all of you for your time.

Last edited by nextstopmars (2016-06-20 15:33:12)