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NO WIFI on xfce and probably other images

my system:
                   '                      artix@artix-live
                  'o'                     ----------------
                 'ooo'                    OS: Artix Linux x86_64
                'ooxoo'                   Host: Swift SF714-52T V1.09
               'ooxxxoo'                  Kernel: 6.9.7-artix1-1
              'oookkxxoo'                 Uptime: 2 hours, 9 mins
             'oiioxkkxxoo'                Packages: 979 (pacman)
            ':;:iiiioxxxoo'               Shell: bash 5.2.26
               `'.;::ioxxoo'              Resolution: 1920x1080
          '-.      `':;jiooo'             DE: Xfce 4.18
         'oooio-..     `'i:io'            WM: Xfwm4
        'ooooxxxxoio:,.   `'-;'           WM Theme: Default
       'ooooxxxxxkkxoooIi:-.  `'          Theme: Artix-dark [GTK2/3]
      'ooooxxxxxkkkkxoiiiiiji'            Icons: matefaenzadark [GTK2/3]
     'ooooxxxxxkxxoiiii:'`     .i'        Terminal: xfce4-terminal
    'ooooxxxxxoi:::'`       .;ioxo'       Terminal Font: Roboto Mono 11
   'ooooxooi::'`         .:iiixkxxo'      CPU: Intel i7-8500Y (4) @ 4.200GHz
  'ooooi:'`                `'';ioxxo'     GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 615
 'i:'`                          '':io'    Memory: 2869MiB / 15745MiB
'`                                   `'
                                                                 
                                                                 


artix xfce open-rc (2024-07-08 weekly iso, and prior such as the official 2023 iso, etc.) wifi does NOT WORK out of the box.

artix plasma open-rc works. i think the difference is xfce uses connman, but plasma uses networkmanager. also, bluetooth doesn't work, and i had to install blueman.

i used wpa_supplicant to manually connect to wifi in artix-xfce-openrc just now. and i just wanted to pass this issue along so someone can fix it. having networking like wifi not working out of the box is a major fail, because it's dead in the water: you can't download packages, you have to troubleshoot from a different device, etc.

i haven't gotten networkmanager to work yet on xfce, but i suspect it would if it were installed properly. i anticipate working on getting a gui set up, instead of manually using wpa_supplicant, so advice for that could be helpful.

tl;dr
connman doesn't work
networkmanager works
put networkmanager in all releases