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I am trying to setup my wifi network in Arch Linux ARM to auto-connect at home and office. But it is not always connecting automatically as intended.

netctl list
* wlan0-Spaceship
  wlan0-Cremehead

I am not quite sure how to debug this problem as it is acting very randomly. I have enabled both wlan0-Spaceship and wlan0-Cremehead which i assume should be the most important thing?

UPDATE 1

I tried to enable the netctl-auto service:

$ systemctl enable [email protected]

But it has not solved the problem, but i see these two FAIL statements:

$ netctl-auto list
  FAIL
  FAIL

  $ systemctl --type=service
  [email protected]             loaded active running Automatic wireless network connection using netctl profiles
  netctl.service                        loaded active exited  (Re)store the netctl profile state
* netctl@wlan0\x2dSpaceship.service   loaded failed failed  Automatically generated profile by wifi-menu
* netctl@wlan0\x2dCremehead.service loaded failed failed  Automatically generated profile by wifi-menu

UPDATE 2

I just found out that i have problems enabling a connection. I need to do this two times to start.

Mar 11 10:05:39 proto-pi2-sandbox network[578]: The WPA supplicant did not start for interface 'wlan0'
Mar 11 10:05:39 proto-pi2-sandbox network[578]: Failed to bring the network up for profile 'wlan0-Cremehead'
Mar 11 10:05:39 proto-pi2-sandbox systemd[1]: netctl@wlan0\x2dCremehead.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mar 11 10:05:39 proto-pi2-sandbox systemd[1]: Failed to start Automatically generated profile by wifi-menu.
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The functionality you are looking for is through nectl-auto. netctl is for auto connecting on boot or whenever the service through systemd is started where netctl-auto connects to the profiles enabled in its own manager and you would only have netctl-auto@[interface].service enabled.

netctl

netctl-auto

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  • Would this not create redundancy as there are profiles as services from netctl already? – JavaCake Mar 11 '15 at 07:28
  • See my primary post. I have updated with info! – JavaCake Mar 11 '15 at 10:01
  • So, in your update 2 it looks like you still have the netctl profiles enabled. You should ONLY have the netctl-auto profile enabled and started you should disable all oter netctl profiles. Then use netctl-auto list to make sure your profiles are ready to auto switch with netctl-auto. – Dean Galvin Mar 11 '15 at 18:50