[PLUG] Wifi not working

Ben Koenig techkoenig at protonmail.com
Mon May 2 21:36:23 UTC 2022


You dont launch network manager. Its a background service that handles networking behind the scenes. Theres no program to launch or open.

Unless you intentionally removed it, theres a button somewhere on your desktop panel that lets you choose a wifi network.

That button should also act as a front end to rfkill.
-Ben

-------- Original Message --------
On May 2, 2022, 2:17 PM, John Jason Jordan < johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:
On Mon, 2 May 2022 14:23:21 -0600
Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com> dijo:
>On Mon, May 2, 2022, 13:23 John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:
>> I also question why I must be root to fly in an airplane.
>I do not need to be root to do this - because I am using network
>manager to manage networks on laptops. Maybe, you also use network
>manage - in which case you could install + start network manager
>applet to do all your network related settings without root.
Network manager was another thing I tried, but if it was installed the
installer did not create a menu item to launch it. 'No problem,' I
thought; I'll just launch it from the command line. But that failed
also, because every command I tried failed with 'no such file.' I found
several command suggestions on the net, but they also all failed.
I might have been able to find it in Synaptic, but by then I was too
frustrated to bother. A program is pretty useless if the user can't
launch it.


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