Are there WiFi text user interfaces besides NMCLI?

VinzC · Last edited by VinzC on Fri Jan 26, 2018 9:43 am; edited 1 time in total

Hi there.

I'm looking for a text-based interface to configure a wireless network with wpa_supplicant, basically: let the user select their wireless network in a list and type the wireless access key and that's it. No configuration option, no create connection, only the wireless net name and access code. I'm able to program one in shell or even Python but I prefer asking beforehand.

I've seen NMCLI screen captures but it looks a little bit too complex for the average user I have in mind. Something simple such as described above would be perfect.

Thanks for any hint/suggestion.
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mv · Watchman Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 6747

Ubuntu has such a convenient user interface to the network-manager.
However, I don't know whether this is Ubuntu home-brewn or part of gnome or of network-manager itself (perhaps it is the NMCLI you mention).

khayyam · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2018 10:31 am Post subject:

VinzC ...

there is wpa_cli (part of wpa_supplicant) ... which is scriptable.

best ... khay

VinzC · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2018 12:32 pm Post subject:

xaviermiller · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2018 12:40 pm Post subject:

Hi,

Wicd has also a nice text interface
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VinzC · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2018 1:51 pm Post subject:

sokhapkin · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 11:16 pm Post subject:

nmcli is good for scripting. For interactive use networkmanager provides nmtui.
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