Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Jc García <jyo.garcia@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If you want an easy way of configuring wirless without GUI use wicd
> and the wicd curses client(enabled via USE flag), NetworkManager is
> simpler to use with a GUI, the CLI client is not so easy to use, but
> if you want to, make sure none of the GUI related use flags are set
> e.g. gtk qt X emerge it, and then read and search info(man, google)
> about nmcli.

I've never used nmcli except to get ip information (see below) but
setting up NM without a gui is simple.

This is my home wifi setup:

# cat /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/thsky
[connection]
id=thsky
uuid=e03d75e4-043a-4276-bf03-3995270ec891
type=802-11-wireless

[802-11-wireless]
ssid=myssidname
mode=infrastructure
security=802-11-wireless-security

[802-11-wireless-security]
key-mgmt=wpa-psk
psk=myssidpassword

[ipv4]
method=manual
address1=192.168.1.11/24,192.168.1.1
dns=192.168.1.111

[ipv6]
method=link-local

If you want to use dhcp, you simply replace the three lines in the
"[ipv4]" stanza with "method=auto".

I have a script that uses nmcli and does the following:

# nmcli -f ip4 -m tabular -t c s id $(nmcli -t -f name c s --active)
IP4:ip = 192.168.1.11/24, gw = 192.168.1.1::192.168.1.111:--:--

"nmcli -t -f name c s --active" outputs the name of the active
connection, "thsky".

"nmcli -f ip4 c s id thsky" ouputs its ipv4 settings.