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

Paul Cartwright pbcartwright at gmail.com
Fri May 2 10:29:46 EDT 2014


On 05/02/2014 10:24 AM, 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?
I would at least install wicd before installing all of gnome...

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Paul Cartwright
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