wifi and arch (or perhaps I should say systemd or iwd)

[Michael]

thanks Mike. I had to enable the it:

[bmike1 at HavensARCH ~]$ nmcli radio wifi
enabled
[bmike1 at HavensARCH ~]$ nmcli device wifi connect NETGEAR48 password
sweetdaisy507
Device 'wlan0' successfully activated with
'4e83077c-e4c4-4de6-9e6b-4f5ca37c451e'.

and after that wifi worked. Now I can take my computer with us when we go
away for the weekend and need two computers!

On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 11:12 AM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> That seems weird, can you try it from the gui?  You should a
> networkmanager icon in your tray on most Desktop Environments.
>
> Also, maybe try walking through these steps in this link, verify the
> radios are on, and a few different ways to connect.
>
> https://fedingo.com/how-to-connect-to-wifi-using-nmcli/
>
> I'm running out of ideas though.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 9:05 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> google is such a bud! I was unsure of how to use network manager (didn't
>> even know if it was installed) so I finally googled it. Well.... it is
>> installed but I still get an error. it is complaining about 'secrets'. So I
>> googled the error and that ultimately lead me to:
>>
>>      https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,2334.0.html
>>
>> instructing me to delete the ssdi. but I still get the same error
>> message:
>>
>>      [bmike1 at HavensARCH ~]$ nmcli device wifi connect NETGEAR48 password
>> sweetdaisy507
>>      Error: Connection activation failed: (7) Secrets were required, but
>> not provided.
>>      [bmike1 at HavensARCH ~]$ nmcli connection delete NETGEAR48
>>      Connection 'NETGEAR48' (18078f46-de97-41d5-84dc-0c0effce12e8)
>> successfully deleted.
>>      [bmike1 at HavensARCH ~]$ nmcli device wifi connect NETGEAR48 password
>> sweetdaisy507
>>      Error: Connection activation failed: (7) Secrets were required, but
>> not provided.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 7:00 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> there is no activity.... the bytes send/receive is blank and it only
>>> shows a port and ethernet  with a red 'x' so that tells me it isn't seeing
>>> the wifi card. and don't ask.... I never had the ethernet cable until I
>>> tried arch.
>>> network manager? well I installed arch via the ISO and typing
>>> 'archinstall'.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 2:54 PM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss <
>>> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Did you install a full desktop on it?  If so, you should have
>>>> NetworkManager in some flavor present, if not, highly suggest using that.
>>>> It's probably a bit easier to troubleshoot with nmcli and the gui itself.
>>>>
>>>> If you look at logs with journalctl -f while doing so, any logs there
>>>> point to problems?
>>>>
>>>> Otherwise, maybe just make sure the wlan nic is working doing some
>>>> basic kismet scans that you're seeing yourself and your neighbors ssid's
>>>> pop up.  As long as you're seeing traffic, it *should* work.
>>>>
>>>> -mb
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 12:34 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss <
>>>> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I connect to the internet ( I guess):
>>>>> [bmike1 at HavensARCH ~]$ iwctl
>>>>> [iwd]# station wlan0 connect NETGEAR48
>>>>> [iwd]#
>>>>> (I had entered my password before)
>>>>> but nothing happens (no WIFI icon). So I unplug the ethernet and
>>>>> restart the computer but still nothing (and no internet as well in case you
>>>>> were wondering). So I ran
>>>>> [bmike1 at HavensARCH ~]$ iwctl
>>>>> [iwd]# station wlan0 connect NETGEAR48
>>>>> again but still no internet. So, please, how do I get WIFI going?
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