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olsztyn
Considering Network Manager is not part of standard antiX 19.2 infrastructure I am not reporting this as an issue but rather asking for advice to improve speed of connecting to WiFi.
Just to further explain:
– Ceni used to be standard and it was very fast commecting. Rock solid too. But not too flexible however if changing WiFi connections
– Connman was much slower connecting than Ceni but provided flexibility
– Network Manager sometimes connects fast but sometimes retries a few times connectingConnman was OK for me except issue connecting to hidden SSIDs. Therefore Network Manager. At first just Network Manager but after slow connecting was happening more often than with Connman I have now both installed, with Network Manager being default.
Any clues on Network Manager slow connecting to WiFi network would be greatly appreciated…Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters
Xecure
Network Manager sometimes connects fast but sometimes retries a few times connecting
There are so many reasons that could cause this, there is no one good solution.
I use to experience this before I set network configuration to “All users have access to this network” (meaning no password encryption needing gnome-keyring).
Sometimes, I found I had to killall nm-applet and restart it to fix a infinite loop of password promps.
Probably these are the reasons anticapitalista favors connman to nm.The problem is that each case can be different. I had a device with zero problems with nm-applet, but a different one takes ages to connect. That is why on some I use connman and on others nm-applet. Maybe I could try nm-tray to see if that works differently.
If someone has any good ideas, we will listen.
antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.Thanks Xecure for these tips. Strange is that gnome desktops do not seem to suffer from such slow connects from what I see and they do use Network Manager I think…
Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters
Brian Masinick
I’m probably not the best one to ask in this case. I have used Ceni, Wicd, Connman and network manager at one point or another.
On my two current instances of antiX on my Dell Inspiron laptop I have Connman on one and Wicd on the other.
With Connman the initial key is to enable the correct interface. The first time I tried it I had to fiddle with the interface for a few minutes, but once I saw the correct WiFi connection I had no trouble with it.
When using Wicd you have to select or add the correct network interface by name. We’re getting away from Wicd because it has not, to my knowledge, been recently maintained.
Ceni is a menu command interface. It’s advantage is the low resources used.
I’ve used network manager with distributions that offer it and it works fine but I don’t use it with antiX.
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Brian MasinickXecure
I don’t know if it is because we aren using gnome policykit or because gnome uses gnome-keyring to store encrypted passwords and that is why it expects a different behavior.
Hopefully at some point we can figure it out, but I am not keeping my hopes up.antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.Ceni is a menu command interface. It’s advantage is the low resources used.
I’ve used network manager with distributions that offer it and it works fine but I don’t use it with antiX.
– In my thinking I do not mind if Ceni is using 1 or 2 M of memory less. What is important however it seems rock solid and fast connecting. Unfortunately it is not flexible enough for today’s environments so I think it was the right decision anti made to replace with Connman…
– Network Manager appears most developed feature wise and it works fine 90+ % of time. It is just sometimes moody for no apparent reason, which I cannot attribute to router or network strength… So as a backup I have Connman installed too as a secondary, should I experience more stubborn behavior of Network Manager.- This reply was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by olsztyn.
Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters
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