I suggest you to try this:
http://gnuinos.org/netman/ (packages for amd64)

Dowload the netman packages for your architecture and use dpkg -i to install.

netman is a network manager without dbus and systemd requirements. You
can also try wicd.

On 14/11/2015, 4ernov <4ernov@???> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I decided to try to switch to Devuan Jessie with KDE4 installed using
> dev1fanboy instructions. As I know, KDE4 isn't either tested or
> supported in Devuan right now, but it's interesting for me to try and
> probably fix something.
>
> I should say the whole process went just fine and I can use it on my
> netbook successfully, except the only issue with network-manager,
> which doesn't allow me to connect to Wi-Fi when started on system
> startup.
>
> I tried getting to know, what's the problem is, and found that my
> network-manager package still depends on systemd. I also found a page
> with efforts to untie them here:
> https://git.devuan.org/packages-base/network-manager. Trying to build
> it manually failed as I have 'newer' D-Bus package and can't reinstall
> it from Devuan repository. So, my two questions are:
>
> 1. Is network-manager package built from the link above available in
> some Devuan repo? I've checked 'merged' and 'devuan' repos, but with
> no success (there's Debian systemd-dependent version exists in
> 'merged' repo and no version in 'devuan').
>
> 2. Can I somehow gently reinstall D-Bus (libdbus-1-3) from version of
> Debian 8.2.0 (it's 1.8.20-0+deb8u1) to Devuan one (1.8.18-0+devuan1)
> without removing it and all its dependencies? It's important question
> for me as I guess this kind of things wouldn't be too unusual
> meanwhile.
>
> And I'd like to take a chance to say big thanks to all the developers
> for this efforts and wish Devuan project all the best. Thank you very
> much!
>
> Alexey Chernov
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