First check if the Wi-Fi device is enabled or not: $ nmcli radio wifi If the output shows that the Wi-Fi is disabled, then it can be enabled with: $ nmcli radio wifi on If we already know the access point, then skip the following step. Otherwise, to identify the access points, run: $ nmcli dev wifi list Supposed we want to connect to the access point named ’totoro’, and the password is ’t0t0r02023’, we can connect to it by running the following command: ...
If you’re here to find out how to setup network connection to hidden wifi access point, you might want to check this post: How to Connect to Hidden Wifi Using nmcli instead. This post documents how I fix an issue of wifi connection on a laptop running Gentoo to a hidden access point. The problem is that the wifi connection doesn’t automatically connect despite I’ve set the autoconnect.connection yes. ❯ nmcli con show CamBlue | grep -i autoconnect connection.autoconnect: yes connection.autoconnect-priority: 0 connection.autoconnect-retries: -1 (default) connection.autoconnect-slaves: -1 (default) I don’t remember having done anything special on the Fedora laptops connecting to the same the network; and this problem didn’t exit on any of those Fedora machines at all. ...
Today I need to setup a wifi connection on a laptop to my home network with hidden SSID. Like so many things that I only have to do it once in a while, I couldn’t remember how to do it. So this blog post is something to remind me in the future should I need to do it agian. Here is one way to do it, thanks to this Stack Overflow question. (Alternatively, check man nmcli and man nmcli-examples which have detailed information): ...
This is like a re-post of a question from askubuntu.com. To get to that post, I usually had to google it. So, I’ll post it here so I know where to look for when I need it again. At work, we use WPA2-Enterprise for wireless connection. To create a new connection on my laptop with wlp3s0 as Wifi device, follow this step: # nmcli con add type wifi ifname wlp3s0 con-name work-wifi ssid work-ssid # nmcli con edit id work-wifi nmcli> set ipv4.method auto nmcli> set 802-1x.eap peap nmcli> set 802-1x.phase2-auth mschapv2 nmcli> set 802-1x.identity myusername nmcli> set 802-1x.password mypassword nmcli> set wifi-sec.key-mgmt wpa-eap nmcli> save nmcli> activate That’s it if you know how to do it. ...