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

[Boris Borisov]

In wicd tutorial is said not to have installed two network-managers in the
same time.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/wicd
On May 3, 2014 9:13 AM, "Wolf Halton" <wolf.halton at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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