'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.