Re: Using nmcli

["Garrison Ricketson" <garry garryricketsonartworks com>]

> 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

Ok, thank you very much on this.
from Garry