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John Bradford
Asked: 2020-06-18 08:20:25 +0800 CST

How to add a wifi connection if I'm not within range

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I'm refurbishing laptops (Ubuntu 20.04) to hand out to kids as part of combating digital exclusion during COVID-19. Obviously I don't want to give them sudo access, however, I can't enter their houses to get onto WiFi.

How do I add a new connection when I set the laptop up (they can give me their SSID / passwords)?

I've tried

nmcli d wifi connect WiFi-SSID password 12345678

but that fails since the wifi isn't in range. I've tried

nmcli connection add type wifi ssid WIFI-SSID password 12345678

but that's throwing an invalid <setting>.<property> 'password'

Not sure where to go next...

networking wireless wpa-supplicant nmcli

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    read man nm-settings

    a general example is

    nmcli connection add type wifi con-name outofrange ssid HUAWEI 802-11-wireless-security.key-mgmt WPA-PSK 802-11-wireless-security.psk xxxxxxxx

    the error in your question <setting>.<property> for example in above command,

    <setting> 802-11-wireless-security <property> key-mgmt
    <setting> 802-11-wireless-security <property> psk

    Based on your OutOfRange connection settings change the above values..

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