Thank you for this suggestion, just tried netman and it really works just fine.

But my initial questions are still there if I'm write to notice that
network-manager is kind of 'default' package for desktop connection
management (sorry if I'm mistaken).

And, by the way, I've also seen an idea to avoid D-Bus in the list
several times. So is it really another aim for Devuan, too?

2015-11-14 16:52 GMT+03:00 Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???>:
> 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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