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Package: network-manager
Version: 0.8.4.0-2
Severity: wishlist
I configured a wireless connection on my system with NetworkManager. It
it very unintuitive, to say the least.
NetworkManager provides /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ . A
properly-written config file dropped in the should do the trick.
Sadly there is no such example config file in the the docus directory of
the package. Below is a slightly-obfuscated version of the file that I
used:
[connection]
type=802-11-wireless
id=TheNetwork
# Note: you MUST unrem this but with a new UUID of your own
#uuid=09c4b373-d842-0198-5d8f-44894de25d0ea0
[802-11-wireless]
ssid=TheNameOfTheNetwork
security=802-11-wireless-security
[802-11-wireless-security]
key-mgmt=wpa-psk
psk=SECRET
This was still not good enough. It took me a while (and code browsing) to
figure out that the interface is considered to be "unavailable" because
the global "wireless" option was disabled, in
/var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state
That configuration file is not mentioned anywhere in NetworkManager(8).
Likewise there is no firendly warning in the logs "hey, we found a
wireless interface but we won't use it, as wireless support is disabled."
Another minor issue is the syntax of nmcli. It seems that nmcli will find
the longest possible method to define a command. To start the network
interface:
nmcli con up id TheNetwork
nmcli con down id TheNetwork
I just wish there would be a command-line interface that would do the
Right Thing[tm] with a shorter command-line.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=he_IL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=he_IL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii adduser 3.113 add and remove users and groups
ii dbus 1.4.12-4 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii isc-dhcp-client 4.1.1-P1-17 ISC DHCP client
ii libc6 2.13-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libdbus-1-3 1.4.12-4 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.94-4 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgcrypt11 1.4.6-7 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnutls26 2.10.5-2 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libgudev-1.0-0 171-3 GObject-based wrapper library for
ii libnl1 1.1-7 library for dealing with netlink s
ii libnm-glib2 0.8.4.0-2 network management framework (GLib
ii libnm-util1 0.8.4.0-2 network management framework (shar
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.101-4 PolicyKit Authorization API
ii libuuid1 2.17.2-9.1 Universally Unique ID library
ii lsb-base 3.2-27 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii udev 171-3 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii wpasupplicant 0.7.3-3 client support for WPA and WPA2 (I
Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii dnsmasq-base 2.57-1 A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii iptables 1.4.11.1-2 administration tools for packet fi
ii modemmanager 0.4.997-1 D-Bus service for managing modems
ii policykit-1 0.101-4 framework for managing administrat
ii ppp 2.4.5-5 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da
Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii avahi-autoipd 0.6.30-5 Avahi IPv4LL network address confi
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On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:02:06 +0300 Tzafrir Cohen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.8.4.0-2
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> I configured a wireless connection on my system with NetworkManager. It
> it very unintuitive, to say the least.
>
> NetworkManager provides /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ . A
> properly-written config file dropped in the should do the trick.
>
> Sadly there is no such example config file in the the docus directory of
> the package. Below is a slightly-obfuscated version of the file that I
> used:
>
>
> [connection]
> type=802-11-wireless
> id=TheNetwork
> # Note: you MUST unrem this but with a new UUID of your own
> #uuid=09c4b373-d842-0198-5d8f-44894de25d0ea0
>
> [802-11-wireless]
> ssid=TheNameOfTheNetwork
> security=802-11-wireless-security
>
> [802-11-wireless-security]
> key-mgmt=wpa-psk
> psk=SECRET
>
>
> This was still not good enough. It took me a while (and code browsing) to
> figure out that the interface is considered to be "unavailable" because
> the global "wireless" option was disabled, in
the nm-setting-keyfile man page provides multiple examples for various
configurations (ethernet, wifi, vpn) which should help you get started
if you want to manually create a connection file.
Personally, I would suggest using one of the frontends (there are
several, graphical, curses-based and command line based)
Regards,
Michael
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