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drudox
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 Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2018 9:49 am Post subject: Tools for automatic connections on startup |
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Hi everybody !
I'm using gentoo with I3 wm in a relatively new laptop , I well remember that when I use my previous laptop I had insert a line for exec on startup a networking tool
that automatically connect the system to the ethernet dhcpcd or to a known wireless that I had already used remembering its password ..
Now I don't want know which was this tools .. but I would like to know how can I obtain this behavior ...
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xaviermiller
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| Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2018 10:10 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
Nowadays, dhcpcd + wpa_supplicant can do that trick. You just have to start both services and dhcpcd will manage your networks.
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potuz
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| Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2018 11:49 am Post subject: |
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| I've used wpa_supplicant+dhcpcd for years but lately I caved in and finally decided to install net-misc/networkmanager. Its fingerprint is nothing compared to the usual beasts that I need to recompile everyone and then and having a curses interface (nmtui) is useful when in places that I need to search for a network (instead of running wpa-cli look for search results and hope that the screen doesn't scroll fast, go and edit the .conf file and so forth) |
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drudox
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| Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2018 12:20 pm Post subject: |
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so basically how I can automatically run networkmanager ?
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potuz
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| Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2018 12:23 pm Post subject: |
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| drudox wrote: | | so basically how I ca automatically run networkmanager ? |
| Code: | | #systemctl enable NetworkManager.service |
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drudox
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| Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2018 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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| no i'm using openrc .. not systemd |
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potuz
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| Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2018 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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EDIT: It seems NM adds a service:
| Code: | $ equery files networkmanager | grep init
/etc/init.d
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the systemd service reads as follows:
| Code: | $ cat /lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service | grep Exec
ExecReload=/usr/bin/dbus-send --print-reply --system --type=method_call --dest=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Reload uint32:0
#ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
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So I suppose adding a hook to those should work. |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2018 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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| potuz wrote: | | ...having a curses interface (nmtui) is useful when in places that I need to search for a network |
Agreed. I like nmcli and nmtui, particularly nmtui. The latter has made life easier when a DE won't start for whatever reason and I need to connect to a network in order to install/re-install some package or other to fix something. Had to use it again just last week.
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