CONFIGURING WI-FI NETWORK WITH COMMAND LINE ON DRAGONBOARD410C USING LINARO DEVELOPER

This tutorial shows how to configure a Wi-Fi connection using "nmcli" commands, this is useful when there's no GUI, nmtui it's not avaliable or to write a bash script to set a connection.

Step 1) Create a connection:

• nmcli con add type wifi ifname YOUR_NIC (Usually wlan0) con-name YOUR_ALIAS autoconnect yes ssid YOUR_SSID

Step 2) Set encryption:

• nmcli con modify dragonboard_ap wifi-sec.key-mgmt YOUR_ENCRYPTION (Usually wpa-psk)

Step 3) Set password:

• nmcli con modify dragonboard_ap wifi-sec.psk YOUR_8_DIGITS_MIN_PASSWORD

Step 4) Set connection up:

• nmcli con up YOUR_ALIAS