> 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 ââ__ 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 > >
Ok, thank you very much on this. from Garry _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
