It occurred to me after writing this, that those who switch to a
dbus-free setup probably would already have the expertise to configure
their networking, and may not be in need of a simple network-manager
type program.  This was my first time performing this type of
configuration (removing dbus).

tempforever wrote:
> Removing dbus also seems to have removed network-manager, and I have
> lost wifi connection.  Was able to get on wired with ifconfig, route
> (and editing /etc/resolv.conf) -- too lazy to use iwconfig.  But this
> may need mentioning in the documentation.  Is there a simple alternative
> to network-manager that doesn't depend on dbus?