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

[Wolf Halton]

Thanks!
wicd was not installed - I added it to fight with MetworkManager.  nmcli
worked, too.  I used to have wheezy on a couple of servers, but there was
no wireless connection.  I hardcoded the eth0 connections in
/etc/networking/interfaces, but never had to touch that again, unless I had
to change the IP for some reason.  For some reason I was resistant to
hardcoding the wireless stanza.  Thanks for the reminder of that.
I will test when this laptop leaves my cave again, in a couple of weeks,
when I go to my daughter's graduation ceremony.

Wolf Halton

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On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>wrote:

> Under Debian wheezy I don't even have a GUI for the network
> configuration.  I just add the wireless info (SSID, key, etc.) to
> /etc/network/interfaces and then use 'ifup wlan0' to bring up my network
> (actually happens automatically because my wireless card is PCMCIA but I
> have altered it manually before.)
>
> iface wlan0 inet dhcp
>   wpa-ssid <ssid>
>   wpa-psk <key>
>   wpa-scan-ssid 1
>   wpa-ap-scan 1
>
> On 2014-05-02 10:22, Horkan Smith wrote:
> > 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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