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Install guide provides little wifi guidance

Is there a preferred cli tool for Wifi setup on Artix?

The install guide just gives a link to the Arch Networking/Wireless page which is a hopelessly confusing complete mess.

The only cli thing I could find that sort of works connman, but there is no explanation of its syntax in the install guide. I got the network up (WPA2 wifi) using connman interactively, but it was not obvious. Unfortunately, to have a minimal GUI to configure it, you have to enable Universe repo to get connman-gtk.  But I still have no visual indicatiom of network status in KDE, just a GUI configuration dialog called "Connman Settings."

Maybe I'm missing something?

Re: Install guide provides little wifi guidance

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Before you can use basetrap to get  openrc, runit, etc., you have to get the network up. There is no straightforward explanation of how to do this.  Ok, I'm assuming an install from artix base and that the a typical user wants wifi with WPA(2).

I managed to get the network up and complete the install, but I don't remember what I did something with wpa_cli or ip or iw or iwconfig...it seemed like everything failed and.... then the interface came up and I got on with the install process.
But the part of installing that took forever was making sense of the Arch Network Config/Wireless page...I never understood it and just got lucky.

Much later in the install process,  I have installed connmand-openrc and added it to the default runlevel with rc-update. I can use connman-gtk to turn Wifi off/on.

Re: Install guide provides little wifi guidance

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Quote from: ceratophyllum – on
Before you can use basetrap to get  openrc, runit, etc., you have to get the network up. There is no straightforward explanation of how to do this.
That could be because with wifi it's not always straightforward.
You can normally chroot from a system / live usb with a working network connection and add the packages you need to progress if you don't know how to bring up the wifi connection on the command line.
Right at the top the wiki does explain this.
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Also, you can perform a base installation (as described in this article) from within any non-base ISO image, using the terminal; this way you can benefit from the auto-configured networking and web browser availability of our DE installation media. In fact, unless you are very experienced or doing a headless server installation, there is little reason to use the base images.

NetworkManager integrates with KDE better than Connman through network-manager-applet.

With connman and KDE maybe try cmst https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cmst