[SOLVED] uninstalled some DEs and now network manager is gone

[tribal jasper]

as the title says, i deleted all DES seen in the image except for i3, openbox and xfce and now network manager is completely gone, and i cant reinstall it because i need it for internet access

HELP

[wise bay]

You can chroot to add it in from a liveusb, or use an ethernet cable to be able to reinstall it

Or if you have a backintime/timeshift, you should be able to recover it

[tribal jasper]

how would i do that

[tribal jasper]

or this

[wise bay]

Which one? Do you have a backintime/timeshift set up?

[tribal jasper]

i dont think so

[wise bay]

Okay, can you plug in an ethernet cable?

[tribal jasper]

maybe

when i turn on hotspot and plug my phone in it says ethernet is plugged in but im not sure of the reliability on that

[wise bay]

That... might work. I'm not specifically familiar with tethering on linux.

But if that DOES work and counts as ethernet, you can redownload things. Like nmtui

[tribal jasper]

trying it rn

no dice

[wise bay]

What about a cat5 cable?

The last option is to chroot into a liveusb

[tribal jasper]

theres no ethernet port

[tribal jasper]

gonna have to

[wise bay]

Then you're going to chroot https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chroot

[tribal jasper]

how do i do that

just put a distro on a usb and boot into it?

[wise bay]

Yeah. You'll generally want your archusb on hand

[tribal jasper]

thats whats on the one i have

booting into the arch installer rn

so what now @wise bay

[wise bay]

lsblk

This should tell you which drive your stuff is on

[wise bay]

Do you know which of those has your OS on it?

[tribal jasper]

sda1 i think

[wise bay]

it's proobably sda3, given the general size

[tribal jasper]

you may be right

[wise bay]

mount /dev/sda3 /mnt

[tribal jasper]

done

[wise bay]

mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys

arch-chroot /mnt

[tribal jasper]

all of those individually?

[wise bay]

Yes

pacman -Syu networkmanager

systemctl enable NetworkManager

[wise bay]

alright... uhh... can you run iwctl from there?

[wise bay]

That should work... going to try this a different way then... Because I have done this before....

can you restart the setup, but try and run iwctl before mounting anything?

[tribal jasper]

trying that rn

[wise bay]

That's good.

device list

[wise bay]

station wlan0 scan

station lwan0 get-networks

[tribal jasper]

listed the networks available

[wise bay]

station wlan0 connect $whatever SSID is your wireless network

It'll probably ask the password for it.

[tribal jasper]

done

[wise bay]

THen you'll go back and
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
arch-chroot /mnt

You can get out of the iwctl with ctrl+c if needed

or type exit.

one of the two

[tribal jasper]

done

[wise bay]

pacman -Syu networkmanager

Since we just connected you to your network, this should work

[tribal jasper]

it is

[wise bay]

systemctl enable NetworkManager

[tribal jasper]

done

[wise bay]

go ahead and shut down, unplug the usb, and see how it goes.

[tribal jasper]

yep

google’s getting pinged

[wise bay]

Then I'm inclined to say to mark it as solved

[tribal jasper]

thanks for the help

[modern granite]

moonburst received a thank you cookie!

[wise bay]

... solved

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