On Monday 15 Nov 2010 10:32:49 Jason Irwin wrote: > I've got Ubuntu 10.10 running on an old laptop and every now and again it > has a grump with X and is a pain in the arse (pretty sure it's a loose > connection as sometimes the BIOS moans it can't find any video). Anyway, I > can usually get to TTY which is cool. > > > > So I am sat in a cafe thinking "TTY's not so bad, I've got w3m installed > and I just want to read the news anyway..." and that's where I came > unstuck. Could I figure out how to connect to a network from the CLI? > Could I buggery. The cafe's network was already known to "Network > Manager"*, so is there any handy-dandy command line kung-fu I can apply to > use that definition? Or will I have to go the long-way-round and use > "wpa_supplicant" or something? >
there is a cli client cnetworkmanager (http://vidner.net/martin/software/cnetworkmanager/) not used it myself though. alternativly you might want to look at using wicd instead of nm -- Kenny _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish