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chiral

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Registered: 2016-02-22

Posts: 25

Wireless Connections Management

Suddenly I am having trouble connecting to WiFi. There's a number of things I need to try to debug my problem, but first, I want to make sure that I have a sensible management strategy for my connections.

1) How do I make sure that I have one, and only one, wireless network manager running in systemd?
2) What is a good choice for that manager?

It doesn't make much difference to me whether I use a GUI or the command line to connect to new access points, but I would like to connect with a single command, rather than a sequence. Thank you!

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 30,426

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Re: Wireless Connections Management

1.

systemctl list-unit-files --state=enabled

2. Entirely up to you. There are wiki pages on most of them.

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cereberus

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Registered: 2018-02-01

Posts: 12

Re: Wireless Connections Management

ad 2.
I recommend you netctl as command line network manager (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/netctl).
Is has a pretty decent CLI tool for finding/connecting to new/remembered networks -- wifi-menu (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/netctl#Installation, https://github.com/joukewitteveen/netct … wifi-menu).

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