'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.

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_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"