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On network management and documenting nmcli
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Pierre Neidhardt |
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On network management and documenting nmcli |
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Fri, 11 May 2018 12:02:49 +0200 |
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During my first encounter with GuixSD, I could not connect to the
Internet for reasons that puzzled me, and I could not find any mention
of it in the manual either.
At first I assumed I had done something wrong with the setup.
I had tried to run wpa_supplicant manually, like I often do on other
distributions. It's only later that I understood why wpa_supplicant
failed: it was because it was already running! (It's stupid but
wpa_supplicant's error messages are extremely misleading.)
The manual is extremely scarse about network configuration. Sure
enough, if nm-applet is running it's rather straightforward. But for a
desktop-environment-less setup and during the install, the default tool
is nmcli only (unless another manager is used, but then the user
probably knows what they are doing).
I don't think any of this is mentioned at all in the manual: I believe
something so essential should be very explicitly documented.
I suggest we add some examples to the Installation info page, for instance:
> nmcli device wifi
> sudo nmcli d w connect "foo SSID" password "foo password"
Mention that tab-completion can be use to complete SSIDs, which is
useful in the event they contain special or invisible characters
(trailing spaces are common).
We should also hint at the (7)nmcli-examples man page.
Unrelated question: why do I need to "sudo" to add a connection?
If I recall correctly, nm-applet does not ask for extra privileges
(could be wrong though).
Comments?
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Pierre Neidhardt
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- Re: On network management and documenting nmcli, Oleg Pykhalov, 2018/05/11
- Re: On network management and documenting nmcli, Devan Carpenter, 2018/05/11
- Re: On network management and documenting nmcli, Pierre Neidhardt, 2018/05/11
- Re: On network management and documenting nmcli, Devan Carpenter, 2018/05/11
- Re: On network management and documenting nmcli, Pierre Neidhardt, 2018/05/11
- Re: On network management and documenting nmcli, Nils Gillmann, 2018/05/13
- Re: On network management and documenting nmcli, swedebugia, 2018/05/13
- Re: On network management and documenting nmcli, Nils Gillmann, 2018/05/13
- Re: On network management and documenting nmcli, Nils Gillmann, 2018/05/13
Re: On network management and documenting nmcli, Chris Marusich, 2018/05/12