Re: method for changing wireless networks in Debian Stretch with mate installed from the command line

[Jason White]

Nick Gawronski  wrote:
> Hi, I have installed the Stretch Debian release with software speech and get
> the screen reader on message from orca or the console login prompt when I
> reboot the system.  My question is if all I wish to do currently is to
> change wireless networks is there a way to do this from the console so I
> don't have to login into mate

If you're running NetworkManager, try the following command:
nmcli connection show
to list the available profiles, then
nmcli connection up 
to activate the one you want. This last command probably requires root
privileges. I haven't tried it, since NetworkManager automatically detects
which wireless network is available in the enviornment and automatically
chooses the correct profile. However, if you have profiles for multiple
wireless networks that are reachable from the same location, you may then need
to select manually.

For further details, see the nmcli(1) manual page.

method for changing wireless networks in Debian Stretch with mate installed from the command line

[Nick Gawronski]

Hi, I have installed the Stretch Debian release with software speech and 
get the screen reader on message from orca or the console login prompt 
when I reboot the system.  My question is if all I wish to do currently 
is to change wireless networks is there a way to do this from the 
console so I don't have to login into mate as of yet I hear speech but 
when I try to interact with the screen using the keyboard I get no 
speech?  I mainly use the console but if I could edit some configuration 
file and change the network this way instead of always going into X 
windows to do this this would be nice.  The /etc/wpa_supplicant 
directory has no configuration file with the network information in it.  
Nick Gawronski