How to connect to Wifi from the command-line?

[fusion809]

Hi,

I have a HP Envy 17 laptop with a Broadcom chip, which I have installed the necessary drivers for but I can't seem to get my X server to start (see this previous question of mine for why I can't seem to start my X server) so I need a command-line means of connecting to the Wifi. On Arch Linux I would use:

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wifi-menu -o


to generate a Wifi profile and then connect to this profile using:

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netctl start <PROFILE>


On Sabayon Linux neither netctl nor wifi-menu commands are available from what I can tell (unless there's some package I'm missing that provides these commands).

Thanks for your time,
Brenton

[mudler]

use nmtui

[fusion809]

Ah thanks, nmtui does seem like a good option. Although now I've noticed yet another issue, my Sabayon install does not seem to be connecting to the Wi-Fi due to a firmware issue. Or at least, nmtui is not automatically detecting the Wi-Fi networks available, like I assume it's meant to. I have installed the @wireless set (with

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equo i @wireless

ofc) and sabayon-sources (as I assume to install the firmware I will need the kernel sources). I have even tried re-installing b43-firmware and broadcom-sta after installing sabayon-sources in case it's necessary for a DKMS-type install of the Broadcom firmware, still no Wi-Fi. So what am I missing? I have looked at the Gentoo Wiki's wifi article (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Wifi) hoping it would mention a package I'm missing but it doesn't seem to, as all it talks about are kernel options required for Wi-Fi networking.

[fusion809]

If relevant whenever I reboot systemd complains that loading systemd-modules-load.service has failed. journalctl -xe | grep systemd-modules reveals:

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Aug 03 19:28:57 fusion809-pc systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Aug 03 19:28:57 fusion809-pc systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Unit entered failed state.
Aug 03 19:28:57 fusion809-pc systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Aug 03 19:28:57 fusion809-pc systemd-modules-load[1744]: Failed to find module 'zfs'
-- Subject: Unit systemd-modules-load.service has begun start-up
-- Unit systemd-modules-load.service has begun starting up.
Aug 03 19:31:19 fusion809-pc systemd-modules-load[2057]: Failed to find module 'zfs'
Aug 03 19:31:19 fusion809-pc systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
-- Subject: Unit systemd-modules-load.service has failed
-- Unit systemd-modules-load.service has failed.
Aug 03 19:31:19 fusion809-pc systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Unit entered failed state.
Aug 03 19:31:19 fusion809-pc systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.


and yes zfs is installed, so I don't understand why I am getting this error.

[mudler]

Post some informations about your wifi card, if it's broadcom to try broadcom-wl you need to blacklist the b43 in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and enable wl back (it's written in the comments of the file.

[sabayonino]

He is trying to install sabayon from tarball (see this discussion) and split his issue.

maybe something is missing .

please keep one.

[fusion809]

I attempted to blacklist with no improvement. Here is what

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lspci | grep Broad

returns:

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07:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 03)


(which I hope will suffice for info about my Wifi chip). Here is my /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf file. Originally blacklist b43 was commented and blacklist wl was uncommented (until I changed in it in the hope of complying with your last comment).