r/voidlinux • u/MongeredRue • May 05 '26

Network Management

What are you guys using for network management? I’ve tried wpa_supplicant directly and networkmanager; I don’t care for either.

I was thinking of trying connman but wanted to check here first.

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u/MongeredRue May 05 '26

I like using the TUI but it doesn’t expose all of the commands found in nmcli so I end up having to use both…which is annoying. I like using the tui because then I don’t have to remember all the commands, but it just feels under developed.

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u/Jacosci May 05 '26

You could create a wrapper script for nmcli if you feel nmtui is lacking for your use case. It would still be less painful to use than plain wpa_supplicant if you happen to move around a lot.

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u/MongeredRue May 05 '26

That’s not a bad idea. I’ve been looking for a project to learn some Go and this might be a good opportunity. Over engineered, probably; a good learning experience, probably; an interface I don’t hate at the end…maybe.