Show pagesourceBack to top Share via Share via... Twitter LinkedIn Telegram Yammer RedditRecent ChangesSend via e-MailPrintPermalink × Table of Contents one-liner to connect with known SSID and passphrase systemd-networkd Troubleshooting I connected to the WLAN, but still can't access the network Connect to a wireless network with wpa_supplicant If your usual GUI program to connect to wifi networks, e.g. wicd or NetworkManager is not available, you can connect to a wireless network by manually scanning and editing wpa_supplicant's config files. see also: Arch Wiki on wpa_supplicant one-liner to connect with known SSID and passphrase Run this on a root shell. sudo will not suffice: wpa_supplicant -B -i INTERFACE -c <(wpa_passphrase MYSSID PASSPHRASE) Find wireless interfaces with iw list. systemd-networkd /etc/systemd/network/INTERFACE.network [Match] Name=INTERFACE [Network] DHCP=yes /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant-INTERFACE.conf ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant eapol_version=1 ap_scan=1 fast_reauth=1 network={ ssid="MYSSID" psk="MYSUPERSECUREPASSWORD" priority=1 } start that shit up: systemctl enable systemd-networkd systemctl enable wpa_supplicant@INTERFACE systemctl start systemd-networkd systemctl start wpa_supplicant@INTERFACE Troubleshooting I connected to the WLAN, but still can't access the network Do you have an IP address? Check this with ip a. If not, you have to obtain an IP via dhcpcd INTERFACE or set it manually with ip a add ADDRESS dev INTERFACE. Could be that your /etc/resolv.conf doesn't list any DNS servers. Either add this: /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 127.0.0.1 (replace 127.0.0.1 with the IP address of your router/DNS server) or use systemd-resolved: mv /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.before-the-systemd-nation-attacked systemctl enable --now systemd-resolved systemd-resolved populates the /etc/resolv.conf with known DNS servers automagically, but you can still add them manually: … DNS=1.2.3.4 FallbackDNS=5.6.7.8 … Last modified: 2019-12-20 14:21