Hi Garry, On Fri, 2015-02-20 at 06:58 -0800, Garrison Ricketson wrote: > Hello all. > Recently I had some problems, my "desktop" would not load, and I needed > to connect online, to try to re-install , how ever normally I start my > internet connection from the desktop, and had never tried this from the > command-line,which is all I had, so I searched google, and found I could > use the command "nmcli" , but I am having trouble understanding what the > correct syntex would be, someone told me this " nmcli dev wifi con <SSID> > password <password> " but I got "syntax error near unexpected token > `newline'"
Well, you need to replace "<SSID>" with the actual network name: $ nmcli dev wifi list * SSID MODE CHAN RATE SIGNAL BARS SECURITY My Network Infra 52 54 Mbit/s 49 ▂▄__ WPA2 802.1X ... $ nmcli --ask dev wifi connect 'My Network' Password: behemoth Device 'wlp4s0' successfully activated with 'e27bd7dd-97a5-4a66-8d48-af943947028f'. $ > I spent several hours going over some articles I found via google, but > couldn't make much sense of them. Can anyone tell me what the correct > commands would be to start neworkmanager, then connect or activate the > device, in this case it would have been "wlan" not wifi,..Thank you all > in advance, Please have a look at the NetworkManager manual; the results are likely to be better than the search results from google. I believe the "EXAMPLES" section in nmcli(1) manual covers exactly your use case. > > > From Garry Regards, Lubo _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
