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* On network management and documenting nmcli
@ 2018-05-11 10:02 Pierre Neidhardt
  2018-05-11 12:21 ` Oleg Pykhalov
  2018-05-13  2:31 ` Chris Marusich
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 21+ messages in thread
From: Pierre Neidhardt @ 2018-05-11 10:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-guix@gnu.org

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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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2018-05-11 10:02 On network management and documenting nmcli Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-11 12:21 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-05-11 12:57   ` Devan Carpenter
2018-05-11 13:00     ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-11 13:10       ` Devan Carpenter
2018-05-11 13:15         ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-13  7:26         ` Nils Gillmann
2018-05-13 11:08           ` swedebugia
2018-05-13 12:22             ` Nils Gillmann
2018-05-13 12:33               ` Nils Gillmann
2018-05-13  2:31 ` Chris Marusich
2018-05-13  7:13   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-13 17:44     ` Chris Marusich
2018-05-13 19:21       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-22 12:42         ` swedebugia
2018-05-22 15:26           ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-23 15:39           ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-23 15:45             ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-23 18:18               ` swedebugia
2018-05-24 12:33               ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-24 12:40                 ` Pierre Neidhardt

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