2016 Arch Linux NetworkManager / Wifi Setup guide.

How to disable dhcpcd and netctl after installing Arch, and install NetworkManager to handle both wired and wireless connections

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[lokucncdoceseciz]

Do you know this sensation when you touch something and suddenly everything come crashing down? Mate you saved my day with this video

[rafael]

I searched for more than a month on how to activate the ethernet and you are the first one that did it and worked.. Thank you so much!!!

[renatoziraschi]

Thank you very much. This was very easy to follow. I was dreading having to configure WiFi but your instructions were top notch. I am using Manjaro and this video got me up and running on the first try. I had picked up an old Thinkpad for free and did not do so well setting up the video in Arch Linux, tried Manjaro everything worked first shot and I wanted to see how bad wifi would be.
I have been using Linux Mint on my desktop for almost a year now and wanted to try another distro for a deeper dive. Thanks

[skybldev]

Thank you so much! I was just about to pull off a clump of my hair in desperation as wifi was super tideous to set up and maintain on my arch machine. You have saved me hours of extra stress!

[inkeman]

You did a very good job with this issue for new Arch Linux users. Awsome work....Hats off to GloriousEggroll

[Tenantry]

I know this is an old video but still so thank you so much for doing it =)

[Klusio]

Wtf I was googling and searching for so long and I found your video and you just simply and quickly tell what to do. Thank you so much! <3

[Tilde-uy]

Thank you so much for this, 2 or 3 hours of google solved in a 10 min video.

[TomFoolery]

Arch evangelists love to dunk on Manjaro but boy is it better at stuff like this. Why in the world is there no wi-fi controls when installing the xfce bundle through arch? I get not including extra cruft but being able to control basics like Wi-Fi should always be included.

[daviddupoise]

Gloriously done yet again. Great job with all your Arch videos. I point those curious about Arch to your videos for details. Great work.

[tiagodelgreco]

YOUUU!!! the arch wiki didnt help me this time...

[tejaskamat]

thanks a lot sir, it fixed my wifi in xfce arch, this 6years old tutorial helped me!! chears!!

[treqzi]

You’re a beautiful man, saved my first install of arch. Had gotten everything installed then had no network, forever grateful for this 🙏🏻

[MrPersistent]

You're a savior dude!! First arch Linux install and had no internet, was starting to freak out!! Now it's working :D

[cmo]

@gloriousEggroll You da man! I had to look up the video a second time. First time i did a install from scratch with arch. Second was with Antergos and still encountered this problem

[Chimperly]

Hey everyone, Thought I'd throw a little comment out there. I was having trouble installing networkmanager, I followed the instructions of Part 2 (thanks gloriouseggroll) and I couldnt keep my wifi connect with "wifi-menu". Each time I rebooted it would disconnect and unless i chrooted into the system from the usb I couldnt get wifi-menu without "Dialog". so in order to move around this here's what you do.
1) boot from the usb and mount your drives as state in the Part 2 video for installing arch.
2)use "wifi-menu" to connect to your wireless.
3) chroot into the system (same as in part 2) with "arch-chroot /mnt"
4) use "pacman -S networkmanager" to install network manager (since you're connected you'll be able to this time)
5) exit the chroot, reboot the system as you normally would
6) use the command line feature to connect to your wifi, "nmcli dev wifi connect <name> password <password>"

Also to show the wifi networks available use "nmcli dev"
you can find all this info @
and this video.

Thanks Glorious!

[patchyst]

I love you. Why can't the Arch Wiki make it this simple?

[lordkillua]

I got to says, your video on archlinux are a serious help, definitly the best one I have found to date !
It would be nice to put that part for those that can't find their wireless adapter.

Well, for those that can't see their wifi card adapter:

**Need internet for this part

lspci -k: network controller is broadcom corporation "BCM43142" in my case
sudo pacman -S linux-headers : for the sake to install the driver
yaourt -S broadcom-wl-dkms : because this match the driver my laptop need
sudo reboot

if everything are rigth, you should be able to see your wireless with ip link
then do the rest of the tutorial GloriousEggroll has done

It worked for me and it can also be a good beginning to help if you don't know how to search your wireless adapter

[John-kmbf]

The output of the lspci -k command is :

08:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1704 802.11n + BT 4.0
Kernel modules: bcma

[courtneybrazley]

bingo !*! dude.... thanks. been pulling my hair out for two days! frustrated but couldnt give up. wifi kept going in and out due to conflict i presume.... got it now. appreciate it !!