Hi Patrice,

On 01/05/2016 10:58 AM, Patrice Remy <premy2u@???> wrote:
> After the reboot (half way through the instructions), those with a Wifi
> network card won't be able to continue (install xfce4, and so on...)
> because they won't be in x-windows anymore, and the network-manager app
> needs x-windows to work, ergo, no internet connection:(

You can get a network connection without x-window using the backend of
netman:

~$ /usr/lib/netman/bin/backend 4 ESSID

Try the following steps:

1.- Open the GUI of netman and disconnect the device.
2.- Open a tty, for example Ctrl + Alt + F2
3.- Login as user and run the above command.

In my case:

~$ cd /usr/lib/netman/bin
~$ ./backend 4 Euskaltel-58YA
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.3.1
Copyright 2004-2014 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:1b:9e:5f:67:46
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:1b:9e:5f:67:46
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPOFFER from 192.168.0.1
DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1
bound to 192.168.0.10 -- renewal in 40561 seconds.

Now, go back to the graphical session:

Ctrl + Alt + F7

As you can see, the system is connected.

HTH,

    Aitor.