Network-manager & wifi issues

my laptop is Archlinux + XFCE4 .
I want to find a network-manager app to help me use wifi network.
things like that in ubuntu is good for me. both cli & gui is ok
thanks~~

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NetworkManager
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wicd
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netcfg
Last edited by lucke (2009-10-26 05:10:39)

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Last edited by Padfoot (2012-04-13 23:47:55)

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My dmesg : http://pastebin.com/rhigpitH
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edit: add words
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I am running XFCE with the gnome network-manager-applet and kwallet as password storage and I do not want to use the gnome keyring because it is making many problems with my current setup.
There are multiple ways to store passwords in NetworkManager. To save them plain in the config files is not an option for me. So I can put them in a password store or hack them in every time I want to connect.
While the gnome network-manager-applet does not work with kwallet I accepted to do all the hackery every time.
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Long story short:
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- kwallet does not announce "org.freedesktop.secrets" - this is done by the nm-plasma applet (which I can not run without hacking XFCE)
- gnome-keyring announces itself as a secret agent but does not work with my setup
Do I need to write my own secret agent which only shows a password prompt and parses the input to NM or is there any option/tool/patch/hack/miracle that I have missed to use kwallet with gnome network-manager-applet or to get a password prompt without installing gnome-keyring?
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Last edited by frederik (2015-04-14 15:30:24)

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Last edited by skmarch (2011-06-23 04:54:47)

I did install it and it has been "bothering" me that I don't know whats behind this GUI. I simply clicked a few buttons and the network connected. Thats awesome. But I left ubuntu for the same reason: I don't know whats going on. I don't want to be dumbed down. On the other hand, I really did not like the netcfg way. It is slow. And since this is my laptop which I sometimes take to school, I want the ability to connect to different networks (with different security types, especially WPA). So netcfg with net-profiles seems like a good option (or network manager). There was no comment on the wiki about the speed of Wicd: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wi … nt_methods
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Hi there.
I am installing new notebook and I am stuggling with an issue for couple of days already.
I am on Cinnamon and I am using Network Manager.
Before installing that, I had net-auto-wireless daemon in rc.conf which did the job and wifi was working.
After switch to NM, I can search and see networks around me, but connection fails.
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Sep 18 00:12:24 Phenom NetworkManager[822]: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason 'none') [0]
I have searched forum here, but haven't found any solution so far.
When I select my network from NM applet, I never get asked for password. However, if I start nm-connection-editor from the command line, edit connection and password there, then all starts to work and there is no problem anymore. So the issue appears to be that NM never asks for password and therefore no connection can be stored.
I have read the wiki and have created org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla in /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d directory.
Some remarks:
- please do not suggest to switch to wicd, I know about it, but I prefer to fix NM instead
- I tried to remove my other computer's saved wifi and it exhibits the same behavior. It worked once, 100% sure about it.
- It does not work also under regular Gnome 3 session, so it is not Cinnamon's fault.

Fixed!!! Went back into the dir: swtools/apps/fingerprint and noticed a second file named updater. Ran, rebooted.
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Network Manager doesnt work

I am using arhclinux + kde 4.11 , my wificard is Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01), and my ethernet is Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 0a) i have red using wifi-menu but i cant use networkmanager and i need it. When i use nm the wire is intermitent and wifi doesnt go. When i dont use nm i can use perfectly wifi but the ethernet fail when i sleep the pc. I need install nm for to do more easy use the network of my faculty. In any case i need something help please.

Welcome to the Arch forums!
Your post does a good job providing a very basic idea of what is going on, but unfortunately not much more than that. More information is required in order to properly diagnose this issue. You should check if there are error messages in the journal, or any other indications as to why things might be failing. Your computer typically makes an attempt at telling you what is going wrong.
From what you have posted though, it kind of sounds like you are trying to use two network management services at the same time. If you use wifi-menu, you are essentially using the ncurses front end to netctl. Netctl is basically just a collection of scripts that wrap the most basic networking tools. If this is in use, then networkmanager is bound to fail as you then have two services competing (and likely failing) to control that hardware.
Check to see if you have more than one service trying to handle things. You can run systemctl with no arguments to see everything that systemd wants to start. Though if you use systemctl --type=service then you can have it tell you only about services (as opposed to all unit types, like mount, automount, device, socket files and more).

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