If you are working on an XO from serial port or the commandline, and you want to drive NetworkManager to connect to your WLAN without using X, here's what you can do.
In my case, I have an open AP, ESSID "olpc" - Create /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/olpc, containing: [connection] id=olpc uuid=11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111 type=802-11-wireless timestamp=0 [802-11-wireless] ssid=olpc mode=infrastructure [ipv4] method=auto #[802-11-wireless-security] ## WPA2: #key-mgmt=wpa-psk #psk=The Secret ## WEP: #key-mgmt=none #wep-key0=0011223344 - NM will ignore it unless you chmod 600 /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/olpc - NM has already ignored it, and won't notice the new file mode until you touch /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/olpc - Monitor /var/log/messages for NM's opinion on your configuration file - With this config in place NM should automatically connect if it sees the ESSID. If not, you can use nmcli nmcli con # will list known connections nmcli con up "Auto olpc" # try to bring that connection up All of this works fairly well. It's just not widely documented, and new to us old-styled iwconfig essid foo && dhclient wlan0 folks... hth, m -- mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
