Re: How to deal with a new Wifi Adapter?

[Derek Atkins <derek ihtfp com>]

Thanks.

-derek

Thomas Haller <thaller redhat com> writes:

> On Thu, 2019-04-11 at 10:16 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Thanks, Thomas,
> >
> > Thomas Haller via networkmanager-list <networkmanager-list gnome org>
> > writes:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > Any chance you could give a quick explanation of what these (two?)
> > sets
> > of commands are doing?
>
> Hi,
>
>
> UUIDS is a variable containing all the "connection.uuid"s for your Wi-
> Fi profiles.
>
> Then, the first "for" iterates over them, and for each connection
> profile it prints 5 fields (so you see what is configured in these
> profiles).
>
> The second, itereates over the same profiles, but clears the
> connection.interface-name and wifi.mac-address properties. These two
> properties (among others) tie a connection profile to a certain device,
> by clearing them, the profile is applicable for any device, regardless
> of the interface name and MAC address. See `man nm-settings` for the
> properties. And see `man nmcli` or just `nmcli help` for info about
> nmcli.
>
>
> Does this help?
>
> best,
> Thomas
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -derek
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'd do:
> > >
> > >     UUIDS="$(nmcli -g TYPE,UUID connection show | \
> > >                     sed -n 's/802-11-wireless://p')"
> > >
> > >     for UUID in $UUIDS; \
> > >     do \
> > >         nmcli \
> > >            -f connection.id,connection.uuid,802-11-
> > > wireless.ssid,connection.interface-name,802-11-wireless.mac-address 
> > > \
> > >            -mode multiline \
> > >            connection show uuid "$UUID" ; \
> > >         echo ; \
> > >     done
> > >
> > > if you want to clear these values:
> > >
> > >     for UUID in $UUIDS; \
> > >     do \
> > >         echo "$UUID ..." ; \
> > >         nmcli connection modify uuid "$UUID" \
> > >             connection.interface-name '' \
> > >             wifi.mac-address '' ; \
> > >     done
> > >
> > >
> > > > In a similar vein, is there a way to tell NM to disable to
> > > > embedded
> > > > wifi
> > > > adapter?
> > >
> > > put
> > >
> > >   [device-unmanage-internal-wifi]
> > >   match-device=mac:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff
> > >   managed=0
> > >
> > > to /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/99-unmanaged-internal-wifi.conf and
> > > restart.
> > >
> > > Or even blacklist the module from loading in /etc/modprobe.d.
> > >
> > >
> > > best,
> > > Thomas
> > >
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