[Solved?] sysvinit-core + KDE - no wifi autoconnect

[Hallvor]

I thought I'd try the good old sysvinit, and installed it with

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apt install sysvinit-core

. I rebooted, and everything looked good until I noticed that the wifi connection was down.

I was able to bring it back up again by selecting it manually in the network manager, but I could not make it autoconnect.

Installing systemd again fixed the issue.

Does anyone else run sysvinit and have wifi autoconnect working? What am I missing?

[oswaldkelso]

You may want to check if the fix is in here anywhere. Jessie Smith (distro watch) has taken over sysvinit and a load of updates just hit. Before we blame mr pottering

http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sys ... log?h=beta

[Head_on_a_Stick]

the wifi connection was down

I would quite like to troubleshoot this if you don't mind switching back to sysvinit and posting the output of this command:

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ip a

Did you try connecting manually (without NetworkManager)?

EDIT: it's worth noting that the systemd-shim is un-maintained so if it's broken then we will have to fix it ourselves...

[stevepusser]

It works in Stretch-based MX 17 with sysvinit, but's that's with the gnome widget, not the plasma applet. It did work on my MX 16 KDE 4 respin, though.

[Hallvor]

This is really strange. When I wrote the last message, I was at my brother's house. It flat out refused to autoconnect to the wifi. Back home again, it autoconnects.

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hallvor@debian-hp:~$ ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 9c:b6:54:a2:f5:ab brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether a4:4e:31:90:8b:68 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.1.*/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic wlan0
       valid_lft 86283sec preferred_lft 86283sec
    inet6 fe80::b116:34f4:149d:590e/64 scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
hallvor@debian-hp:~$