I recently installed Arch Linux and am having issues getting the network manager set up. I am able to sudo wifi-menu
and connect to a router, but these settings are not preserved through a reboot.
What can I do to resolve this?
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Sign up to join this communityI recently installed Arch Linux and am having issues getting the network manager set up. I am able to sudo wifi-menu
and connect to a router, but these settings are not preserved through a reboot.
What can I do to resolve this?
You aren't setting up NetworkManager; wifi-menu
comes from "netctl" and it doesn't automatically configure its generated netctl profiles to start on boot.
From your question I assume you have NetworkManager installed. To use it,
start it:
systemctl start NetworkManager
make it auto-start on boot:
systemctl enable NetworkManager
tell it to connect to a WiFi network:
nmcli dev wifi con "My network"
However, if you actually meant netctl by "the network manager", enable the netctl-auto
service:
systemctl enable netctl-auto@wl…
(Replace wl…
with the actual interface name that you see in ip link
.)