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A question about how Wireless Networking is set up

Hi All!

I've been using Artix with runit for a couple of weeks now and so far so good!  I'm really loving the customizability that comes with Linux, and the boot times on runit are impressive!

I installed Artix using the Calamares installer mainly because I was unsure how to set up wireless during the installation (I don't have direct access to the ethernet in my room and don't want to bug my roommates while trying to do the extensive install).  I'm coming from Manjaro, but I have also attempted a bare bones Arch install before and ran into a similar issue.

I took a look around my environments recently as I love to do stuff from the command line and eschew using the mouse when I can (unless it just is obvious that it will be faster, which is very rare).  I looked around for a non-existant wpa_supplicant.conf file and also looked at the only two lines of comments in the NetworkManager.conf file under the /etc directory.

I'm still  learning how this goes, but the documentation on the Arch Wiki is just a little overwhelming atm.  I don't mean to be a pain, but could somebody explain how my machine was able to pick up on all the wifi networks in my area when I first booted up my machine?

If I were to redo this as a base install, what is the easiest way from the tty to find and connect to local wifi networks in my area?

Thanks in advance, the community here so far has been very helpful and I'm very grateful!

Re: A question about how Wireless Networking is set up

Reply #1 –
There are too many ways to configure your network connections. Artix seems to prefer connmand + wpa_supplicant. It's not a bad choice. Very easy and one thing I like connmand is it includes a DNS cacher. You don't have to use another daemon like dnsmasq.

Follow this link  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ConnMan to configure from CML or use connman-gtk if you have X up.

Re: A question about how Wireless Networking is set up

Reply #2 –
Quote from: calvinh – on
There are too many ways to configure your network connections. Artix seems to prefer connmand + wpa_supplicant. It's not a bad choice. Very easy and one thing I like connmand is it includes a DNS cacher. You don't have to use another daemon like dnsmasq.

Follow this link  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ConnMan to configure from CML or use connman-gtk if you have X up.

Yes!  This helps explain quite a bit, thank you.  I do have connman-gtk up and was able to switch up my wifi to a backup network and back again using the connman cli interface.

Thank you so much!  I"ll do more investigating so that I understand it, but this is more straightforward than the wpa_supplicant for sure. I appreciate you taking the time to answer my question!

Re: A question about how Wireless Networking is set up

Reply #3 –
Quote from: z3rOR0ne – on
I took a look around my environments recently as I love to do stuff from the command line and eschew using the mouse when I can (unless it just is obvious that it will be faster, which is very rare).  I looked around for a non-existant wpa_supplicant.conf

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wpa_supplicant