Turning On Wifi at Boot

LanternAtomika · 07-08-2014, 06:27 AM

I'm dual booting SteamOS and Windows 8.1 on a laptop. I've got everything working as I want except for wifi. The wifi works, but it isn't on at boot, so I always have to go to the desktop, turn on the wifi there, and then log out and back into steam. Is there some way to make it so the wifi is turned on at boot?

SteamOS is based on Debian, by the way, and has GNOME as a desktop environment. So I'm thinking if a solution would work for Debian, it'll work for SteamOS

netnix99 · 07-08-2014, 08:04 AM

In GNOME, if you open the network manager (nm-connection-editor on the CLI), open the interface you are interested in, there is a check box to CONNECT AUTOMATICALLY. Check that, and you should be good. Not sure why you would ever have to log off and log back on to get this to work. IF anything, restarting the network services should do the trick. In RHEL, you don't even have to do that.