Can't handle WiFi

[Thatoo]

Hello,

I face the same issue as #107

Wifi connects automatically but I can't handle WiFi from Cosmic. Bluetooth works out of the box.

The Wifi toggle is there, but it is grayed out, and I can't switch it and I can't find any wifi settings.

:~$ nmcli device
DEVICE          TYPE      STATE                  CONNECTION
wlp4s0          wifi      connecté               FREEWIFI
lo              loopback  connecté (en externe)  lo
p2p-dev-wlp4s0  wifi-p2p  déconnecté             --
enp0s31f6       ethernet  indisponible           --
vboxnet0        ethernet  non-géré               --

[Thatoo]

Wifi settings ave arrived within Cosmic settings app but the wifi applet is still not working properly, same as previously described.

[drakon64]

How is your networking configured?

[Thatoo]

in configuration.nix, I have simply :

  networking.hostName = "LaptopName"; # Define your hostname.
  # networking.wireless.enable = true;  # Enables wireless support via wpa_supplicant.

  # Configure network proxy if necessary
  # networking.proxy.default = "http://user:password@proxy:port/";
  # networking.proxy.noProxy = "127.0.0.1,localhost,internal.domain";

  # Enable networking
  networking.networkmanager.enable = true;

and nothing about it in my specialisation.nix file

How should it be?

On a different but linked issue, upstream, I got this answer, pop-os/cosmic-epoch#976 (comment), can it be related?

[Thatoo]

I'll try adding something like this :

  specialisation = {
    cosmic.configuration = {
      environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
        networkmanagerapplet
        gnome.networkmanager-openvpn
      ];
      system.nixos.tags = [ "Cosmic" ];
    };
  };

[Thatoo]

It has indeed solved this issue pop-os/cosmic-epoch#976 (comment) and also it has added a wifi option among applets but it doesn't feel quiet right (not very integrated. I'd be interested to see how it should look like by the way).

is the new wifi option among applets
and

is the same as before : no icon and impossible to switch wifi toggles.

[Wasabi375]

I have a similar issue. The Wi-Fi toggle is working fine for me, but I can't connect to any network.

When I try it shows an error message:

Sometimes it also thinks that I entered the wrong password:

I checked multiple times and the password is correct.

I tried the workaround above and I am able to connect using the network manager applet.

[graysonhead]

I have the same issue. I cannot toggle anything with the Cosmic network app, but I can change network seetings either via nmcli or via the network settings page in cosmic.

I found the following error, which I'm guessing is the cause:

Oct 11 10:56:25 deckchair .cosmic-panel-wrapped[2694]: com.system76.CosmicAppletNetwork: thread 'tokio-runtime-worker' panicked at cosmic-applet-network/src/network_manager/mod.rs:365:44:
Oct 11 10:56:25 deckchair .cosmic-panel-wrapped[2694]: com.system76.CosmicAppletNetwork: called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: MethodError(OwnedErrorName("org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Settings.PermissionDenied"), Some("uid 1000 has no permission to perform this operation"), Msg { type: Error, serial: 1033, sender: UniqueName(":1.11"), reply-serial: 192, body: Signature("s"), fds: [] })
Oct 11 10:56:25 deckchair .cosmic-panel-wrapped[2694]: com.system76.CosmicAppletNetwork: stack backtrace:
Oct 11 10:56:25 deckchair .cosmic-panel-wrapped[2694]: com.system76.CosmicAppletNetwork:    0: rust_begin_unwind
Oct 11 10:56:25 deckchair .cosmic-panel-wrapped[2694]: com.system76.CosmicAppletNetwork:    1: core::panicking::panic_fmt
Oct 11 10:56:25 deckchair .cosmic-panel-wrapped[2694]: com.system76.CosmicAppletNetwork:    2: core::result::unwrap_failed
Oct 11 10:56:25 deckchair .cosmic-panel-wrapped[2694]: com.system76.CosmicAppletNetwork:    3: cosmic_applet_network::network_manager::NetworkManagerState::new::{{closure}}
Oct 11 10:56:25 deckchair .cosmic-panel-wrapped[2694]: com.system76.CosmicAppletNetwork:    4: cosmic_applet_network::network_manager::start_listening::{{closure}}
Oct 11 10:56:25 deckchair .cosmic-panel-wrapped[2694]: com.system76.CosmicAppletNetwork:    5: <futures_util::stream::stream::map::Map<St,F> as futures_core::stream::Stream>::poll_next
Oct 11 10:56:25 deckchair .cosmic-panel-wrapped[2694]: com.system76.CosmicAppletNetwork:    6: <futures_util::stream::select::Select<St1,St2> as futures_core::stream::Stream>::poll_next
Oct 11 10:56:25 deckchair .cosmic-panel-wrapped[2694]: com.system76.CosmicAppletNetwork:    7: <futures_util::stream::stream::map::Map<St,F> as futures_core::stream::Stream>::poll_next
Oct 11 10:56:25 deckchair .cosmic-panel-wrapped[2694]: com.system76.CosmicAppletNetwork:    8: <futures_util::stream::stream::map::Map<St,F> as futures_core::stream::Stream>::poll_next
Oct 11 10:56:25 deckchair .cosmic-panel-wrapped[2694]: com.system76.CosmicAppletNetwork:    9: <futures_util::stream::stream::map::Map<St,F> as futures_core::stream::Stream>::poll_next
Oct 11 10:56:25 deckchair .cosmic-panel-wrapped[2694]: com.system76.CosmicAppletNetwork:   10: iced_futures::subscription::tracker::Tracker::update::{{closure}}
Oct 11 10:56:25 deckchair .cosmic-panel-wrapped[2694]: com.system76.CosmicAppletNetwork:   11: tokio::runtime::task::raw::poll
Oct 11 10:56:25 deckchair .cosmic-panel-wrapped[2694]: com.system76.CosmicAppletNetwork:   12: tokio::runtime::scheduler::multi_thread::worker::Context::run_task
Oct 11 10:56:25 deckchair .cosmic-panel-wrapped[2694]: com.system76.CosmicAppletNetwork:   13: tokio::runtime::task::raw::poll
Oct 11 10:56:25 deckchair .cosmic-panel-wrapped[2694]: com.system76.CosmicAppletNetwork: note: Some details are omitted, run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=full` for a verbose backtrace.

uid 1000 is my user, and I am in both wheel and the networkmanager group, and I'm not sure why this permissions error is occurring.

$ nmcli general permissions
PERMISSION                                                        VALUE
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.checkpoint-rollback                yes
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-connectivity-check  yes
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-network             yes
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-statistics          yes
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wifi                yes
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wimax               yes
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wwan                yes
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.network-control                    yes
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.reload                             yes
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.global-dns         yes
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.hostname           yes
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.own                yes
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system             yes
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.sleep-wake                         yes
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.scan                          yes
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.open                    yes
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.protected               yes

[Thatoo]

The issue is still here on alpha 3

[Thatoo]

I think I found out my issue. I deleted all past connection setting that were containing a WEP wifi password, reboot and now the network applet display and is working.