[Solved/Bug]Hard time getting my wireless to work with netctl

Question

I'm wondering what is up. I have a very fresh (no WM yet) arch linux install on a laptop i intend to use at school, needless to say i can't use it there unless i got proper wireless.
Would you suggest i just switch to wicd? (i'm more familiar with wicd, but as i recall i think i had this set up and working fine with netcfg once upon a time.)
anyways i'll tell you what i've got.
#ip link
1: lo:...
2: enp0s25:....
3: wlp3s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DORMANT qlen 1000
link/ether 00:27:10:a5:2b:28 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
contents of /etc/netctl/profile
Description='Description'
Interface=wlp3s0
Connection=wireless
Security=wpa
IP=dhcp
ESSID='MySsid1'
Key='My number-only WPA-PSK'
i try to start the profile.
#netctl start profile
Job for [email protected] failed. See 'systemctl status [email protected]' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
#journalctl -xn
.... Starting Networking for netctl profile profile....
The interface of network profile 'profile' is already up
[email protected]: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Failed to start Networking for netctl profile profile.
The result is failed.
Unit [email protected] entered failed state.
i tried according to the wiki using
#wifi-menu -o
to automatically generate a profile to see if i was doing something wrong, but no profile was generated (at least not inside /etc/netctl/)
The only 2 programs i've installed apart from the core that came with the pacstrap last night are 'dialog' (for wifi-menu) and wpa_supplicant (with no particular configuration). Am i missing a dependency or doing something wrong?
Last edited by rabcor (2013-08-21 13:15:05)

Answer 1

I'll be using both ethernet and wireless on this laptop at random pretty much, i'm now scratching my head over how i can make it use ethernet anytime it's connected but otherwise look for a wireless network.
I'm not understanding how that bonding thing works, so i don't know if i can rely on it for that purpose or not.
This would be no problem if the whole thing was better designed. I need 1 extra dependency (ifplugd) to be able to automate switching between ethernet profiles and another(wpa_actiond) to be able to do the same for wireless profiles, i don't want to start both of them because it would most likely have a heavy impact on my boot time. all i want it to do is choose between dhcp ethernet or two different wireless connections.
i was kindof hoping i could trick netctl-ifplugd into runing netctl-auto if it fails.
Last edited by rabcor (2013-08-21 13:56:47)