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On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Fernando Rodriguez |
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<frodriguez.developer@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 4:15:53 PM Tom H wrote: |
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>> I've never used nmcli except to get ip information (see below) but |
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>> setting up NM without a gui is simple. |
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>> This is my home wifi setup: |
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>> # cat /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/thsky |
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>> [connection] |
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>> id=thsky |
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>> uuid=e03d75e4-043a-4276-bf03-3995270ec891 |
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>> type=802-11-wireless |
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>> [802-11-wireless] |
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>> ssid=myssidname |
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>> mode=infrastructure |
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>> security=802-11-wireless-security |
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>> [802-11-wireless-security] |
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>> key-mgmt=wpa-psk |
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>> psk=myssidpassword |
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>> [ipv4] |
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>> method=manual |
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>> address1=192.168.1.11/24,192.168.1.1 |
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>> dns=192.168.1.111 |
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>> [ipv6] |
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>> method=link-local |
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> Did you find that documented somewhere or did you use an UI to create the file |
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> originally? What about when you need one of the many features that this simple |
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> example doesn't cover (like permissions)? what is the guid? It is hard. |
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I first started creating these connections by reading a page on |
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freedesktop.org that had the same info as what you now get with "man |
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nm-settings". The latter might even have existed at the time... |
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I haven't tested this in a while but in the past you needed one of id and uuid. |
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The uuid is easily generated with "uuidgen". |
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> When I started using NetworkManager I had hell trying to modify that file |
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> manually because plasma-nm ask for root password when modifying system wide |
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> connections but it doesn't save the changes (the solution was to run nm- |
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> connection-editor manually as root). The same applies to nmtui and it only |
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> covers a few options. I don't remember exactly what needed to be changed in |
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> the file but it wasn't intuitive. |
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There's a famous rant by Linus about having to provide the root |
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password in order to join a network. |
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I've never used KDE so I have no idea about which gui applet to use |
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and how/why settings are saved and I've never used nmtui but I suspect |
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(unless it was a specific NM bug at the time) that it was a problem |
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with the polkit settings like Linus' problem. |
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