No Network Manager Applet

Question

So I just installed Arch on my desktop, I am wireless, but I have made sure my wireless card is properly configured. I have gone into the settings menu and looked at my applets and it says the applet is there but it never works or shows up. For whatever reason, no matter how many desktop environments I try I never have a network manager. I've tried KDE, Gnome, XFCE, and Cinnamon and none of them have it. Ordinarily I wouldn't mind connecting to wifi through the terminal, but when I go back to school, the network there requires a username to log in which according to my experience is not possible through the terminal. If it is please correct me and/or offer me a suggestion. Thanks in advance

Answer 1

TheNeXus84 wrote:
I am using an Intel Centrino Advanced N6205 wireless card.
the output of my systemctl status NetworkManager command is as follows:
[root@ArchLinux cj]# systemctl status NetworkManager
NetworkManager.service - Network Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sun 2013-12-22 20:42:57 EST; 23s ago
Main PID: 645 (NetworkManager)
   CGroup: /system.slice/NetworkManager.service
           └─645 /usr/bin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
Dec 22 20:43:11 ArchLinux NetworkManager[645]: <info> Config: set interface ...1
Dec 22 20:43:13 ArchLinux NetworkManager[645]: <info> (wlp5s0): supplicant i...d
Dec 22 20:43:13 ArchLinux NetworkManager[645]: <info> (wlp5s0): supplicant i...d
Dec 22 20:43:13 ArchLinux NetworkManager[645]: <warn> Connection disconnecte...)
Dec 22 20:43:13 ArchLinux NetworkManager[645]: <info> (wlp5s0): supplicant i...d
Dec 22 20:43:13 ArchLinux NetworkManager[645]: <warn> Connection disconnecte...)
Dec 22 20:43:13 ArchLinux NetworkManager[645]: <info> (wlp5s0): supplicant i...g
Dec 22 20:43:13 ArchLinux NetworkManager[645]: <info> (wlp5s0): supplicant i...d
Dec 22 20:43:14 ArchLinux NetworkManager[645]: <info> (wlp5s0): supplicant i...g
Dec 22 20:43:17 ArchLinux NetworkManager[645]: <info> (wlp5s0): supplicant i...d
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
UPDATE: I fixed the problem. I had to enable DHCPCD. sorry to be a bother to you all but thanks for the help and support.
EDIT: upon rebooting my previous problem has occurred again.
Make sure that you have done
systemctl enable NetworkManager
as well as
systemctl start NetworkManager
- also when you ran dhcpcd how did you do it?  Your network interface is wlp5s0 so you need to have dhcp running for that interface -
systemctl start [email protected]
will start it if it is not started, and
systemctl enable [email protected]
will ensure it starts after booting up. However I never needed to start dhcpcd at all when using NetworkManager.
There are occasions when the relative timing of different services does not allow some services to start properly - and then occasionally you need to add in some items to the NetworkManager service file to tell it to wait until the network is up first, if there are delays in the network starting at boot time but that can be sorted out once the basic services are set to start at boot.
Last edited by mcloaked (2013-12-23 18:01:46)