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

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