'wireless-dbus' Connection manual

Description

This connection method uses wpa_supplicant's dbus interface to configure a wireless network connection.

This connection uses the 'ethernet-iproute' connection after successful association and thus supports all of it's options.

Options

INTERFACE (required)
The wireless interface to configure
SECURITY (required)
One of 'wpa', 'wep', 'none' or 'wpa-config'
KEY (required for SECURITY of 'wpa' or 'wep' only)
Wireless encryption key.
ESSID (this or AP is required)
Name of network to connect to. Note that for "wireless-dbus" profiles this is always a Gnu regexp (as interpreted by "expr").
AP (this or ESSID is required)
AP of the network to connect to.
TIMEOUT
Time to wait for association. Defaults to 15 seconds.

WPA options

WPA_CONF (for SECURITY of 'wpa-config' only)
Path to wpa_supplicant configuration. Defaults to '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
WPA_DRIVER
wpa_supplicant driver to be used. Defaults to 'wext'
WPA_OPTS
Extra arguments for wpa_supplicant not specified otherwise.