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Revision as of 21:54, 3 January 2022
NetworkManager is a program that provides automatic detection and configuration for systems to connect to networks.
Installation
NetworkManager is in the repositories and can be installed with the networkmanager package. It comes with a command line interface and a curses-based interface, nmcli and nmtui respectively.
Additional interfaces:
- plasma-nm for Plasma integration and applet
- network-manager-applet for a GTK system tray applet
Start the daemon after installation:
rc-service networkmanager start
Wireless networks
wpa_supplicant backend
 the wpa_supplicant section is a work in progress (Please test before adding anything here) |
- Follow: Wi-Fi#wpa_supplicant
Open /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf in a editor and change it to look something like this:
Contents of /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
iwd backend
NetworkManager supports wireless networks through iwd. After installation, enable the server and restart NetworkManager:
rc-service iwd start rc-service networkmanager restart
To use iwd though, you've have to edit NetworkManager's configuration because it still defaults to wpa_supplicant instead. Add the following to /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf:
[device] wifi.backend=iwd
VPN support
Since version 1.16, NetworkManager has support for Wireguard[1].
Support for other VPN types is provided by plugins. They are provided in the following packages:
- networkmanager-openvpn for OpenVPN