Network Manager Won't Start

[Blam0]

[COLOR=var(--posttitletextcolor)]Network Manager Won't Run




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[COLOR=var(--newCommunityTheme-bodyText)]Greetings --
I'm running Kali on top of WSL on Windows 11. Running WSL 2. Windows is fully patched. Kali is fully patched. Apt-get network-manager reports it is already at newest version (1.40.2-1)
sudo service network-manager start|stop results in "NetworkManager" is not running/does not exist.
reboot does not help
in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf managed =false. I've tried it with "true" and no luck.
Using Kex, one point I was able to get into "Edit Connections" but everything was greyed and I was unable to save. This is no longer true.
What I'm really trying to do is add a connection to openvpn using an .ovpn file. CLI instructions for this are pretty opaque...
I welcome the community's wisdom

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[sml156]

This is the command

systemctl stop NetworkManager

[Fred Sheehan]

sudo service network-manager enable
sudo service network-manager start

[ajee10x]

Show me the log

sudo airmon-ng stop wlan0
sudo systemctl start NetworkManager
systemctl list-unit-files --state=enabled
systemctl status wpa_supplicant