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+<h1 id="wireless-dbus-connection-manual"
+>'wireless-dbus' Connection manual</h1
+><h2 id="description"
+>Description</h2
+><p
+>This connection method uses wpa_supplicant's dbus interface to configure a wireless network connection.</p
+><p
+>This connection uses the 'ethernet-iproute' connection after successful association and thus supports all of it's options.</p
+><h2 id="options"
+>Options</h2
+><dl
+><dt
+ >INTERFACE (required)</dt
+ ><dd
+ >The wireless interface to configure</dd
+ ><dt
+ >SECURITY (required)</dt
+ ><dd
+ >One of 'wpa', 'wep', 'none' or 'wpa-config'</dd
+ ><dt
+ >KEY (required for SECURITY of 'wpa' or 'wep' only)</dt
+ ><dd
+ >Wireless encryption key.</dd
+ ><dt
+ >ESSID (this or AP is required)</dt
+ ><dd
+ >Name of network to connect to. Note that for &quot;wireless-dbus&quot; profiles this is always a Gnu regexp (as interpreted by &quot;expr&quot;).</dd
+ ><dt
+ >AP (this or ESSID is required)</dt
+ ><dd
+ >AP of the network to connect to.</dd
+ ><dt
+ >TIMEOUT</dt
+ ><dd
+ >Time to wait for association. Defaults to 15 seconds.</dd
+ ></dl
+><h3 id="wpa-options"
+>WPA options</h3
+><dl
+><dt
+ >WPA_CONF (for SECURITY of 'wpa-config' only)</dt
+ ><dd
+ >Path to wpa_supplicant configuration. Defaults to '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'</dd
+ ><dt
+ >WPA_DRIVER</dt
+ ><dd
+ >wpa_supplicant driver to be used. Defaults to 'wext'</dd
+ ><dt
+ >WPA_OPTS</dt
+ ><dd
+ >Extra arguments for wpa_supplicant not specified otherwise.</dd
+ ></dl
+>