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How to manage Wifi in xenial-i3 i3wm image UPDATE - MarkHaysHarris777 - 09-01-2017
Greetings,
I ran into a small glitch while trying to manage wifi connection on my new xenial image using the i3wm tiling window manager; my ubuntu-mate image connected fine ( same hardware ) but I could not get the connection to work using the cli wpa_supplicant that I am used to.
The solution is really simple , as it turns out; use the cli version of Network-Manager !
First, I reinstalled Network-Manager; you may not need to do this step :
sudo apt isntall network-manager --reinstall
Then bring up the wlan0 interface :
sudo ip link set wlan0 up (optional)
and lastly start the connection with the nmcli tool :
nmcli d wifi connect <ssid> password <passphrase>
That's it.
use these commands to monitor the connections:
nmcli -p d
nmcli -p c
Notes:
nmcli d wifi
The above command is similar to scanning; will show the available SSID in the area.
Once a connection is established the connection is persistent; when you reboot the system it will attempt to establish that same connection again; similar to the gui nm.
RE: How to manage Wifi in xenial-i3 i3wm image UPDATE - AndyK - 09-01-2017
nmtui also worked well for me if you want something terminal based but more friendly - its more gui-like than cli-like.
I didn't have to install anything - it seemed to be included with my system which was i3 installed on the stock Mate image.
Andy
RE: How to manage Wifi in xenial-i3 i3wm image UPDATE - MarkHaysHarris777 - 09-01-2017
(09-01-2017, 02:49 PM)AndyK Wrote: nmtui also worked well for me if you want something terminal based but more friendly - its more gui-like than cli-like.
thanks AndyK !
... ncurses based looks like; its on my system and I tried it out; thanks a lot/
RE: How to manage Wifi in xenial-i3 i3wm image UPDATE - MarkHaysHarris777 - 09-02-2017
I installed the mate-terminal ( i3wm standard terminal and font are just too small for my eyes ).
... anyway, the nmtui looks much better on the mate-terminal ( when using a larger font ) using a full sized window for the terminal IMHO.
... especially when editing connections !
RE: How to manage Wifi in xenial-i3 i3wm image UPDATE - dahni - 09-14-2017
(09-01-2017, 02:49 PM)AndyK Wrote: nmtui also worked well for me if you want something terminal based but more friendly - its more gui-like than cli-like.
i think tui is the word you're looking for ;-)
Quote:I didn't have to install anything - it seemed to be included with my system which was i3 installed on the stock Mate image.nmtui belongs to networkmanager, as the name suggests.