u/DeutscheMan

Hello! After trawling thought the documentation and the subreddit for information regarding my issue connecting to WiFi with NetworkManager I am unable to find a solution. So far I've been mindul to:

-Install both NetworkManager & dbus.

-Create runit symlinks as per the handbook for both services with "sudo ln -s /etc/sv/* /var/service".

-Ensured that both services are running with "sudo sv status /var/service/*".

-Attempt to use wpa_supplicant as an alternative as it worked fine within the installation environment.

-Remove any conflicting wifi services to prevent conflicts such as wpa_supplicant.

-Add and re-add my primary user to the wheel & network group and confirm privileges.

-Test service status with "sudo sv status ___".

-Checked if my wifi works with other devices. (It does)

-Check credintials for errors or typos.

-Check my other installed operating system (on a serpare ssd) for wifi connectivity with NM. It is.

I am simply stumped. Every ping attempt results in "temporary failure in name resolution". I would very much like to use Void as the operating principles and rolling release model closely matches my disposition towards operating systems along with my adoration for independent distributions. If any one has experience with similar issues please let me know if there's any other steps I may have missed or if a chroot is nessessary to install missing software. Thank you for your help, and have a lovely rest of your day as well.

**EDIT: looking at the results of nmcli I noticed the network is showing it is connected through my primary wireless device, but I am still getting the "temporary failure in name resolution error".

**EDIT 2: SUCCESS! THANK YOU /u/hopingforabetterpast and /u/ImprovementJealous90 for the tips as the issue was indeed with resolv.conf. For anyone in the future that has a similar issue, update resolve.conf with "resolvconf -u".

Hello! As a nix newbie with absolutely no coding or development experience I must say it's a uniquely satisfying distribution to use. Like many I come from Arch based distributions, but moreso in general I adore independent Linux distributions. I admire how independent distros approach different topics like init systems or package management in sometimes wildly divergent ways. From Solus to Void to Arch, and Nix of course is its own animal entirely and is incredibly fun. One config to rule them all (or spilt into flakes if that's your fancy)!

So with my lack of coding and development knowledge ( I'm even learning git at the same time) it makes me giddy when a rebuild is successful the first time. It's like magic really and a marvel of open source engineering to see the nix store do its thing. Do I understand fully what I'm doing? No. Not at all. But over time with the help of resources like this sub, the discord, the offical/unofficial documentation, and YouTubers like Tonybtw or Vimjoyer I'm getting there. Yes, AI has its uses here but I want literacy and a full understanding of my system. And yes, I beat my head into recursive error messages. But nothing hits quite the same as a clean install and building it from the ground up by yourself. Satisfying and rewarding, the nix way!

PS. Nix Shells are amazing. I can just use a package without a full install?!? Actual sorcery.