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Norma Jenkins

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Registered: 2023-09-19

Posts: 19

[SOLVED] Wi-Fi manager connection problems

Hi, I currently use iwd 2.17-2 and I experience frequent issues with the wireless networks like being connected but no connection or having connection but some apps just can't connect and trasmit packets, once I used NetworkManager to connect to the wifi, everything worked really nice for some time but on restart IWD still gave those problems.

I have 2 networks, on the first one I have no connection until I set a custom dns in systemd-resolved and restart iwd and systemd-resolved, while on the second one that is just connected to the first one via LAN it sort of works alone, but I still experience issues with software like Distrobox not being able to download packages because it couldn't dial-up some mirrors.

Last edited by Norma Jenkins (2024-05-10 20:54:37)

mesaprotector

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Registered: 2024-03-03

Posts: 198

Re: [SOLVED] Wi-Fi manager connection problems

Do you have both iwd and networkmanager installed? You can configure networkmanager to use iwd as a backend for Wi-Fi, but normally you would use only one or the other, as they can interfere. Apologies if you already know this.

Do you use a firewall that could be blocking the connections?

Norma Jenkins

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Registered: 2023-09-19

Posts: 19

Re: [SOLVED] Wi-Fi manager connection problems

Well, I knew I could use IWD as a backend for NetworkManager, but I thought it was default behaviour, I just followed arch wiki to add 

wifi.backend=iwd

in my NetworkManager config file and well now even DistroBox works! I think that really solved my issues, I would need to test more with behaviour on restart but for now it works, so I will mark as solved, thanks.