Re: nmcli can not join hidden networks?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2015-07-09 at 08:30 -0600, Preston Price wrote:
> Would it be possible to write a small script/app that would interface
> directly with the dbus and send the correct information/settings to
> network-manager?

Yes, it certainly would.  There are a bunch of examples here:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/examples

so after picking your favorite language, something to do what you want
should be fairly straightforward.  Happy to help point you in the right
direction once you've done that; there isn't a single script here
that'll do what you want, but pieces of a couple will work.

Dan

> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2015-07-08 at 16:17 -0600, Preston Price wrote:
> > > System details:
> > > Ubuntu 14.04
> > > nmcli v. 0.9.8.8
> > >
> > > I've spent the afternoon Googling and I'm out of ideas.
> > > It appears that there is no way to connect to a hidden SSID from nmcli.
> > >
> > > If I, for example try:
> > > *$ sudo nmcli dev wifi con '<SSID>' password '<Password>' name 'hidden
> > AP'*
> > > I get an error response:
> > > *$ Error: No network with SSID '<SSID>' found.*
> > >
> > > I can use the network manager applet to create/connect to this hidden AP,
> > > but I need a non-GUI/command-line-only solution. I don't see any other
> > > appropriate options/flags to set in the nmcli command.
> > >
> > > Is there some secret sauce I'm missing?
> >
> > I don't think you're missing anything; this just seems like a deficiency
> > in nmcli.  One thing you could try instead (while the bug gets fixed) is
> > to create the connection once, set the "wireless.hidden" property to
> > true, and then 'nmcli con up <connection name>".
> >
> > Also note that 'nmcli dev wifi connect' will create a new connection
> > each time (I think), so after the first time you connect successfully,
> > you can just use "nmcli con up <name>" instead.
> >
> > I filed https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752173 for this
> > issue.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Dan