[ale] Making a wifi connection from the command line?

[Horkan Smith]

I had to do quite a bit of digging on something similar (was playing w/ an Arch and a Fedora install on my laptop.)

'nmcli' is the command line version of the Network Manager client.  For Debian, it's part of the network-manager package, so you probably already have it.

Try 'nmcli con list' to list your possible connections, then try 'nmcli con up id put_your_connection_name_from_the_list_here'

If that doesn't work, let me know....

later!
   horkan

On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 10:24:41AM -0400, Wolf Halton wrote:
> Wifi on Ubuntu is usually a simple nm-applet in the notifications-bar
> issue: choose the wireless network you want and connect - enter the
> password and it automagically connects to that Wireless network every time
> you go there, forever and ever, amen.
> 
> I upgraded UbuntuStudio 13.10 to 14.04Beta over the wire, and there were a
> few problems with the Xfce desktop (standard on UbuntuStudio).  The
> nm-applet is running but no icon is visible in the notifications box.  The
> Dropbox icon and Copy.com icons are missing as well.
> 
> I cannot find an cli command to get me to connect to a new wifi network.  I
> would like to find a cli command to do this.  Hard to believe this is not
> an included functionality.
> 
> Would I be better off just to install the whole Gnome desktop and see if
> the notifications work correctly there, or backing up /home and bare-metal
> installing UbuntuStudio 14.04 again?
> 
> Wolf Halton
> 
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