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warry

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Registered: 2018-09-02

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] Wifi works, but fails to start on boot

Hi folks,

I have decided to start properly learning Arch today with a fresh install, after playing for a while in Antergos.

I've got wifi working pretty quickly with

wifi-menu

then

netctl enable home-wifi

and

netctl start home-wifi

. But when I reboot, the journal says that

the interface of network is already up

, and the only way to make it work is by disabling the link first like this:

# ip link set wlp3s0 down
# netctl start home-wifi

Did I forgot something? Any idea what I've got wrong?

I have also ran

systemctl enable netctl.service

, but before making any more damage I've decided to ask here,

Thanks

Last edited by warry (2018-09-02 12:38:24)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,113

Re: [SOLVED] Wifi works, but fails to start on boot

Welcome to the arch linux forums warry.  What is the output of

systemctl list-unit-files --state=enabled

warry

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Registered: 2018-09-02

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Wifi works, but fails to start on boot

thanks loqs, pretty happy to be here !

the result of the command is :

$ systemctl list-unit-files --state=enabled
UNIT FILE                                  STATE  
autovt@.service                            enabled
dbus-org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.service enabled
dbus-org.freedesktop.network1.service      enabled
dbus-org.freedesktop.resolve1.service      enabled
dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service     enabled
getty@.service                             enabled
haveged.service                            enabled
ModemManager.service                       enabled
netctl.service                             enabled
systemd-networkd-wait-online.service       enabled
systemd-networkd.service                   enabled
systemd-resolved.service                   enabled
systemd-timesyncd.service                  enabled
sshd.socket                                enabled
systemd-networkd.socket                    enabled
remote-fs.target                           enabled

16 unit files listed.

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,113

Re: [SOLVED] Wifi works, but fails to start on boot

See the note from Network_configuration#Network_managers

systemd-networkd.service                   enabled

Running multiple network managers such as systemd-networkd and netctl creates issues such as this as the services compete to control the interface.

warry

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Registered: 2018-09-02

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Wifi works, but fails to start on boot

disabling networkd worked ! thank you very much !