On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 08:42:12PM -0800, Britton Kerin wrote: > Got a new laptop after 10 years of excellent stable ancient debian, > and my wireless works from gnome, and only from gnome. Unfortunately > I find that gnome3 is not for me. I've been trying dwm. > > No combination of nmcli ifconfig iw ip rfkill unblock wpa_supplicant > /etc/network/interfaces etc. that I've tried makes wireless work > outside of gnome, and I've googled much and tried many of them. It > seems like a waste of time, since clearly nm-applet and/or > NetworkManager knows the magic spell.
If for whatever reason NetworkManager doesn't work for you, and you want an easy to use alternative, I'd recommend wicd. Using low-level tools can indeed be tricky, so while they're more powerful than anything NM or wicd can do, they're an overkill and a waste of learning time if what you want is regular use of a single interface. > I'm posting here both in hope of a solution, and because this seems > like a bug. How come this only works from gnome? nmcli in particular > looks like it's trying to be a general-purpose solution, but somehow > it too only works from gnome. NM is closely tied to Gnome so regressions in non-Gnome use aren't surprising. -- An imaginary friend squared is a real enemy.
