On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 09:02:27PM -0800, Michael Shiloh wrote: > And what about those of us on embedded systems or others that offer only > text-based interfaces? I'm trying to solve exactly this problem on a > BeagleBoard via ssh, and can not use the GUI.
On my laptop I moved at some point to NetworkManager, but decided not to use the GUI. I only use configuration files from /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections . $ cat /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true Be sure to enable the parts you want enabled (wireless, wwan) here. I configure the wired network interface(s) in /etc/network/interfaces: allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp I also have some manual settings there. Then you need a configuration file. The name of the file can be arbitrary, but I name it the same as the name of the connection. $ cat /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/example_wireless_plain [connection] type=802-11-wireless id=example_wireless_plain # You MUST set a different uuid for each connection. Don't copy it: # cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid # or whatever #uuid=8609b858-69b1-4ca6-adbe-7dcd47cb8711 [802-11-wireless] ssid=TheirEssID $ cat /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/example_wpa2 [connection] type=802-11-wireless id=example_wpa2 # You MUST set a different uuid for each connection. Don't copy it: # cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid # or whatever #uuid=ca9e4d19-a06f-4c7e-b0db-9f27c1792ba1 [802-11-wireless] ssid=AnotherEssID mode=infrastructure security=802-11-wireless-security [802-11-wireless-security] key-mgmt=wpa-psk psk=The Password Those two stanzas covered some 99% of the cases for me. Scanning is still more cumbersome, though. I never did get to autemate generating a config. Shouldn't be complicated, though. Reference: http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/api/09/ref-settings.html Sadly I did not see any progress in http://bugs.debian.org/637769 . -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
