I am haapily running siduction paint-it-black (fully upgraded) on my thinkpad-t460.
But a little annoying item: there is an icon in the system tray with reddish contour that is labelled _Nertworks_.
I guessed that it is related to plasma-nm.
I tried to configure it to at least store the usual wifi networks that I use but it does not work at all; it accept the ssid and the associated password but does not offer to
connect to any of them. I have to use _ceni_ everytime I move around and change network; a little bit annoying. Even my little raspbian system is detecting the wifi networks!!
I search a lot about that and found nothing valuable.
Any clue?
Here are some info about my system
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System: Host: delta Kernel: 4.9.5-towo.1-siduction-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.8.4
Distro: siduction 15.1.0 Paint It Black - kde - (201601162135)
Network: Card-1: Intel Ethernet Connection I219-V driver: e1000e
IF: enp0s31f6 state: down mac: c8:5b:76:91:49:76
Card-2: Intel Wireless 8260 driver: iwlwifi
IF: wlp4s0 state: up mac: f0:d5:bf:1d:ad:8a
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jy@delta# lshw -C Network
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: Wireless 8260
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: wlp4s0
version: 3a
serial: f0:d5:bf:1d:ad:8a
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=4.9.3-towo.1-siduction-amd64
firmware=22.361476.0 ip=192.168.1.100 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
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jy@delta# systemctl status NetworkManager
● NetworkManager.service - Network Manager
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2017-01-27 15:53:11 EST; 20min ago
Docs: man:NetworkManager(
Main PID: 628 (NetworkManager)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 4915)
CGroup: /system.slice/NetworkManager.service
└─628 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
Jan 27 15:53:11 delta NetworkManager[628]: <info> [1485550391.6088] manager: (lo): new Generic device (/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0)
Jan 27 15:53:11 delta NetworkManager[628]: <info> [1485550391.6098] manager: (enp0s31f6): new Ethernet device (/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1)
Jan 27 15:53:11 delta NetworkManager[628]: <info> [1485550391.6101] (wlp4s0): using nl80211 for WiFi device control
Jan 27 15:53:11 delta NetworkManager[628]: <info> [1485550391.6103] device (wlp4s0): driver supports Access Point (AP) mode
Jan 27 15:53:11 delta NetworkManager[628]: <info> [1485550391.6110] manager: (wlp4s0): new 802.11 WiFi device (/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/2)
Jan 27 15:53:11 delta NetworkManager[628]: <info> [1485550391.6224] manager: startup complete
Jan 27 15:53:11 delta NetworkManager[628]: <info> [1485550391.6225] manager: NetworkManager state is now CONNECTED_GLOBAL
Jan 27 15:53:12 delta NetworkManager[628]: <info> [1485550392.3821] bluez: use BlueZ version 5
Jan 27 15:53:12 delta NetworkManager[628]: <info> [1485550392.3838] ModemManager available in the bus
Jan 27 15:53:12 delta NetworkManager[628]: <info> [1485550392.3885] supplicant: wpa_supplicant running
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jy@delta$ groups
jy lp dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev users systemd-journal lpadmin netdev scanner
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jy@delta$ ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: enp0s31f6: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether c8:5b:76:91:49:76 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlp4s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000
link/ether f0:d5:bf:1d:ad:8a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff