[arch-general] Why there is no NetworkManager in ArchISO

Paul Gideon Dann pdgiddie at gmail.com
Mon Jul 24 08:21:31 UTC 2017


On 24 July 2017 at 08:54, Junayeed Ahnaf via arch-general <
arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:

> I've installed ArchLinux on 3 desktops so far, and I've done them
> successfully, so I must have *RTFM* , I was just wondering why is it
> hard to configure wifi. Since I failed to configure wifi with
> wpa_supplicant. I'll try with wifi-menu today, and report progress.
>

I get where you're coming from: wpa_supplicant is powerful, but is not
particularly easy to set up manually, and I always used to groan when I had
to rely on Wifi in archiso. But wifi-menu takes all the pain away: it's
simple and straight-forward now.

Paul


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