systemd-networkd is a network manager that comes built in with Systemd. It has features, similar to NetworkManager and ConnMan which are more commonly used in distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora. My old system I had moved away from NetworkManager one year back due to constant issues with connecting to enterprise Wi-Fi with logs and errors that were difficult to debug or fix. It was also difficult to see where the failures occurred prompted me to move towards a more modular system.

Raison d’être When I first installed this system, I was oblivious to disk encryption and didn’t factor it in. This resulted in a non-LVM system with some haphazard partitions from subsequent resizing and nuking of Windows in the past few years. One good decision I took when installing was to separate / and /home so this turned out to be easier than I thought. Preparation I was apprehensive of ending up with a dead system before today’s DGPLUG session, so I managed to get weechat up and running inside tmux in a virtual console.

I had an urge to write this post since setting up a dial-up connection took me quite an effort. First of all you should have bluez and wvdial installed. sudo pacman -S bluez sudo pacman -S wvdial First scan for bluetooth-enabled devices by hcitool scan If there are any devices, its address and name would be displayed. Copy the required address. Now, create rfcomm device to connect to your phone via bluetooth.