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Artix base ISO is wonderfully packed with delicious ConnMan connection manager.  With ConnMan, Internet connection may be established from pure bash shell, without Xorg, without installed DE, without any graphical frontend.

ConnMan remembers established connection and reconnects automagically on subsequent reboots.  Backup installed base ISO, without any DE, and restore it later to add any desired DE.

Once DE is installed, ConnMan continues to autoconnect to Internet.  For GUI lovers, it has connman-gtk graphical frontend. NetworkManager and ModemManager aren't needed, ConnMan does everything what they do.

Full  ConnMan description is offered by ArchWiki here:

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

ConnMan's use is very simple, there's nothing complicated.  Below is a quick list of main Connman commands, which I use to connect to Internet from base ISO.  Once you're in (root) bash shell, use them to connect.  Example uses my WiFi ID - use yours instead:

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# connmanctl technologies
# connmanctl enable wifi
# connmanctl services
# connmanctl
connmanctl> agent on
connmanctl> connect wifi_bc743749b87b_4137422f64526f6d+managed_psk
[--> agent asks for passphrase to connect <--]
connmanctl> quit
# ping artixlinux.org

Edit: Typos

Reading the base install how2 I notice that internet connection is required right after partition mounting but if I have only wifi hardware then setting that up comes only later in the installation process so that it's not clear how to get past this point (yet the Plasma iso live DVD caters to the installation of all basics and much more without an internet connection).

Wireless ones must be configured by the user. Verify your connection before you proceed. If you want connect through a wireless interface you should use wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd to set it up.

Artix base ISO is wonderfully packed with delicious ConnMan connection manager.  With ConnMan, Internet connection may be established from pure bash shell, without Xorg, without installed DE, without any graphical frontend.

ConnMan remembers established connection and reconnects automagically on subsequent reboots.  Backup installed base ISO, without any DE, and restore it later to add any desired DE.

Once DE is installed, ConnMan continues to autoconnect to Internet.  For GUI lovers, it has connman-gtk graphical frontend. NetworkManager and ModemManager aren't needed, ConnMan does everything what they do.

Full  ConnMan description is offered by ArchWiki here:

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

ConnMan's use is very simple, there's nothing complicated.  Below is a quick list of main Connman commands, which I use to connect to Internet from base ISO.  Once you're in (root) bash shell, use them to connect.  Example uses my WiFi ID - use yours instead:

Code: [Select]

# connmanctl technologies
# connmanctl enable wifi
# connmanctl services
# connmanctl
connmanctl> agent on
connmanctl> connect wifi_bc743749b87b_4137422f64526f6d+managed_psk
[--> agent asks for passphrase to connect <--]
connmanctl> quit
# ping artixlinux.org

Edit: Typos

Reading the base install how2...

wpa_supplicant is sufficient for WiFi:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wpa_supplicant

seems to be far more involved than connman

Yes, that is usually the compromise: on one side are the simple, minimal, CLI programs, which offer the most freedom to the user, and with no (or very little) dependencies, which require reading the documentation to configure and use, and on the other side are opinionated "user friendly" programs, often with several dependencies and, at the extreme end, using GUI point-and-click interface, which might require less reading to use, but are harder to diagnose and fix when they stop working.

By the way, there is a configuration generator for wpa_supplicant: SetNet.

The above alone pretty well leaves me out of it. But in the blurb I read with interest what I think is a distinction made between using "su" and "sudo". The latter limits the required privilege (in this case for SetNet use) whereas the former leaves you do whatever you want. Is there anything else? I've been using "su" mostly.