'wireless' Connection manual
Description
This connection method uses wireless_tools and wpa_supplicant to configure a wireless network connection.
The new 'wireless-dbus' connection method is preferred over this
This connection uses the 'ethernet' connection after successful association and thus supports all of it's options.
Options
- INTERFACE (required)
- The wireless interface to configure
- SECURITY (required for security of 'wep', 'wpa' or 'wpa-config')
- One of 'wpa', 'wep', 'none' or 'wpa-config'. Defaults to 'none'
- KEY (required for SECURITY of 'wpa' or 'wep' only)
- Wireless encryption key.
- ESSID (this or AP is required)
- Name of network to connect to.
- AP (this or ESSID is required)
- AP of the network to connect to.
- TIMEOUT (optional)
- Time to wait for association. Defaults to 15 seconds.
- SCAN (optional)
- Scan for a wireless network rather than blindly attempting to connect. Hidden SSID networks do not appear in a scan. Enable with 'yes'. Defaults to 'no'.
- IWCONFIG (optional)
- Arguments to pass to iwconfig before attempting to configure the connection. For example, BSSID.
WPA options
- WPA_CONF (for SECURITY of 'wpa-config' only)
- Path to wpa_supplicant configuration. Defaults to '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
- WPA_OPTS
- Extra arguments for wpa_supplicant not specified otherwise. Any option here must specify wpa_supplicant driver. Defaults to '-Dwext'.
- WPA_GROUP
- Group that has authority for on-the-fly config files created when SECURITY="wpa"