NetworkManager inactive [Solved]

[enrico68]

Hello forum,

I read quite a few threads relating to the inactive NetworkManager issue, but none of them was helpful, so I am back asking for some help on how to resolve this issue. The strange thing I find is that on many other Linux distros I tried, all these connection issues do not appear, and I am up and running without a glitch. But, with Gentoo, at least this time, it seems harder than I thought, coming from previous succesfull installations on other machines.

I am using NetworkManager with iwd as a backend, following the Gentoo wiki.

Here are some logs that were asked in those threads, which I am posting as a starting point:

rc-upate show https://dpaste.com/E7RRN25TY
ifconfig https://dpaste.com/BHNKJLZCC
nmcli con show https://dpaste.com/CPLRRBREL
ip a https://dpaste.com/BP5P2ZKD3.

For any further infor needed, please ask and I will provide it.

Thank you in advance for any input and support.

[Zucca]

Hi.
I have one box which sometime shows the same behavior as yours. Restarting networkmanager fixes the issue.
The issue however seems to occur after newly booted system.

I also noticed that I have loads of dhcpcd zombie processes:

[enrico68]

Hello Zucca,

no, I did not enable dhcpcd ,only NetworkManager and iwd. Like I said, for some weird reason, I tried with other distributions and this issue does not occur....it might be something related to my kernel config, which I set up following the wiki...

[enrico68]

I am adding two more files, as they could be beneficial to understand what is going on:

rc-status boot default https://dpaste.com/9MF6UL3ZY

kernel config. https://dpaste.com/2CMSFYLGV

[Zucca]

Please paste the output of

[enrico68]

I managed to connect to the network, which makes me extremely happy!!

Here is how I did it: I deleted the NetworkManager service, then I added the dhcpcd service to the default runlevel, all processes done while chrooted using the Gentoo LiveCD, and rebooted into Gentoo.

Once logged in, I ran

[enrico68]