Re: Using nmcli

[poma <pomidorabelisima gmail com>]

On 20.02.2015 15:58, 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'"
>  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,
>
>
> From Garry


I'd looked here - nmcli/nmtui
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7-Beta/html-single/Networking_Guide/index.html