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

[Alex Carver]

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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