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kwankiu / archlinux-installer

a community-built Arch Linux Installer for ARM (Aarch64) based devices.
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wlan0 vs nmtui #21

Closed DarkevilPT closed 4 months ago

DarkevilPT commented 4 months ago

Are you sure wlan0 is better than nmtui? For some reason I prefer nmtui and I wonder if nmtui isnt an better approach for this.. consider testing nmtui instead.. maybe..

kwankiu commented 4 months ago

If NetworkManager has an issue, nmtui likely would not work.

That’s where wifi-menu do its job

DarkevilPT commented 4 months ago

But have u tought of testing it to see how the installer would behave in terms of process compared to re-asking which wifi to connect at each reboot during the installing?

kwankiu commented 4 months ago

But have u tought of testing it to see how the installer would behave in terms of process compared to re-asking which wifi to connect at each reboot during the installing?

Sure if I only have to support the rock 5 I will likely switch to nmtui

But I am pretty sure nmtui won’t work with Edge 2. If it works why would we be struggling fixing the WiFi issues.

DarkevilPT commented 4 months ago

But have u tought of testing it to see how the installer would behave in terms of process compared to re-asking which wifi to connect at each reboot during the installing?

Sure if I only have to support the rock 5 I will likely switch to nmtui

But I am pretty sure nmtui won’t work with Edge 2. If it works why would we be struggling fixing the WiFi issues.

It does works on edge 2. But only because the kernel is fixed for that now. Before connections couldnt be found (im not sure).

kwankiu commented 4 months ago

But have u tought of testing it to see how the installer would behave in terms of process compared to re-asking which wifi to connect at each reboot during the installing?

Sure if I only have to support the rock 5 I will likely switch to nmtui But I am pretty sure nmtui won’t work with Edge 2. If it works why would we be struggling fixing the WiFi issues.

It does works on edge 2. But only because the kernel is fixed for that now. Before connections couldnt be found (im not sure).

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

kwankiu commented 3 months ago

The idea of packing an online installation image is to keep the system clean and lightweight, nmtui needs a lot of depenency as well as full NetworkManager installed. The reason to use wifi-menu is because netctl came with arch linux itself, and wifi-menu only need wpa-supplicant and dialog to work.

netctl seems to support auto wifi connect, i have enabled it now, but needs some test