Hi Dave -

I remember dealing with wpa_supplicant back in the day.  Hopefully, 
Allen can make use of the how-tos you found.

Cheers,
Dave

On 10/09/2014 03:45 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:
> On 09/10/14 07:30, David G.Miller wrote:
>> Allen Wilkinson <aw@...> writes:
>>
>>> David,
>>>
>>> Key question is how do I configure network connections with NetworkManager
>>> from the command line?
>>>
>> <SNIP>
>> Probably not the answer you want to hear but you don't with EL5 and earlier.
>>
>> It is possible to work directly with the appropriate configuration files like
>> we did in the "good old days" before NetworkMangler.  There were some
>> reasonably good how-tos that I followed to get WiFi working on my laptop back
>> in 2005.  Getting the original how-to is probably much better than me trying
>> to remember what I did.
> Actually when you mention it now ... there is this wpa_supplicant which
> does the WPA configuration.  I did this many years ago when I ran
> Gentoo, long before NetworkManager came along.  IIRC, NetworkManager
> uses wpa_supplicant under the hood even nowadays.
>
> This might provide some better clues on the wpa_supplicant config files:
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/WpaSupplicant
> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Wpa_supplicant#WPA2_with_wpa_supplicant
>
>

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