Connect with network-manager outside of the GUI

[Stevo]

This can be useful for those using smxi to install graphic drivers, or it somehow the GUI gets broken and you end up with a terminal login only.

Network-manager has a command-line interface called "nmcli". Example commands can be found on this page: http://www.linux-commands-examples.com/nmcli

Probably the most applicable:

nmcli dev wifi

lists available Wi-Fi access points known to NetworkManager.

nmcli con up id "My cafe"’

Connects to the already known access point using the "My cafe" profile. Existing profiles can be found in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/.

Creating and connecting to a previously unknown wifi hotspot is apparently available in NM >= 0.9.6, maybe that can be backported...

[lucky9]

ceni and/or ceni-mx run also, don't they?

[Stevo]

Yes, but those aren't in MEPIS by default.

We could add that excellent Ceni option to the smxi/sgfxi entry in the wiki, though.