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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
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