Getting Wi-Fi to work on Alpine is a fucking mess (for me at least).

[thomholwerda@exquisite.social]

Getting Wi-Fi to work on Alpine is a fucking mess (for me at least).

[thomholwerda@exquisite.social]

Wi-Fi works finally, but since switching to edge, the boot process ends at Starting Display Manager [OK] and then just sits there indefinitely. If I switch to a different console with ctrl + alt + F1 and then start sddm manually, it works fine.

Any #AlpineLinux people have any idea?

[greatscott@social.vivaldi.net]

@thomholwerda I have to confess I'm now at that time in my life where basic stuff like wifi just needs to work out of the box, without too much fiddling around hope you find a solution, I have little experience with Alpine myself, unfortunately.

[domi@donotsta.re]

@thomholwerda@exquisite.social check the logs? this sounds a little bit like sddm started by a service can't bind to the tty (because of something bad going on with udev, for instance)

... also, is udev even running? and does sddm depend on it? (check /etc/init.d/sddm)

i'm on alpine but I start my session by typing startx so I can only guess

[camelia@fedi.camelia.dev]

@thomholwerda hmm what are you using for Wi-Fi? wpa_supplicant?

[thomholwerda@exquisite.social]

@camelia I got it figured out! Not entirely sure what I did wrong, but after some fiddling and more doc reading, everything is perfectly working Wi-Fi-wise now.

[ariadne@social.treehouse.systems]

@thomholwerda yes, this is a design problem with elogind: it will return /dev/tty1 as available when it is being used by a getty. you can work around it by turning off getty on /dev/tty1.

[thomholwerda@exquisite.social]

@ariadne Alright, thanks! I'll figure out how to do that and, well, do it!

[noisytoot@berkeley.edu.pl]

@ariadne @thomholwerda I switched away from SDDM because of this bug and haven't switched back yet, but since https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/100373 SDDM should just use tty7. I don't think it's in a stable release yet though.