Use Network-Manager to Connect to a wifi Access Point on the command-line
- by Stefano Palazzo
I'd like to connect to a wireless access point from the command-line.
ideally, I'd only need the name of the AP. But the hardware-address would work as well.
I know I can use nmcli to connect to a managed network connection, but in my case, the access point may not be configured for Network-Manager yet (See the difference between the output of nm-tool and nmcli con).
Example output of nmcli:
Auto pwln 3a3d62b1-bbdf-4f76-b4d2-c211fd5cfb03 802-11-wireless [...]
Wired Network aa586921-accf-4932-98c4-c873c310f08e 802-3-ethernet [...]
Cisco-UDP Uni 7f94847b-04dc-40b7-9955-5246fb77cc65 vpn [...]
T-mobile (D1) 867f345a-cbbf-4bd4-b883-a5e5ae0932f0 gsm [...]
Example output of nm-tool:
State: connected
- Device: eth1 [Auto pwln] ----------------------------------------------------
[...]
Wireless Access Points (* = current AP)
*pwln: Infra, [...], Freq 2472 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 80 WPA WPA2
WLAN: Infra, [...], Freq 2422 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 20 WPA WPA2
[...]
How do I connect to an access point that may or may not be known to NM?
Extra:
Finding out if the connection needs a pass-phrase, and submitting it on the command-line as well would be great too (that is to say It'd be nice if network-manager wouldn't pop open any keyring dialogues or errors on the gui)
