Manage your wireless with nmcli
nmcli
is a command line tool for controlling NetworkManager and reporting on its status. It is meant
to be used as an alternative to nm-applet
for headless servers and by power users.
Listing
To list all wireless networks in range,
$ nmcli -p dev wifi list
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WiFi scan list
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SSID BSSID MODE FREQ
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'Wireless-1' B8:E6:25:37:13:XX Infrastructure 2462 MHz
'Wireless-2' 02:03:D8:08:A3:XX Infrastructure 2412 MHz
Note: Some of the columns have been stripped from the above table.
To list all the known wireless networks (networks that you have previously connected to), run
$ nmcli con
NAME UUID TYPE TIME
Wireless-1 28d6c265-xxxx-4e83-907f-ecb5ab3ac37c 802-11-wireless Thu
Wired-Network 30d29da3-xxxx-4ea2-94ff-0edac8954ff7 802-3-ethernet Sun
Wireless-2 89f31b44-xxxx-4b7d-abb1-8242a1fa7040 802-11-wireless Thu
Wireless-3 6adcb4e8-xxxx-4e88-bf50-872d9e5eb1f3 802-11-wireless Fri
Wireless-4 8c4fc701-xxxx-472e-aecc-40131c0d8d31 802-11-wireless Fri
Connecting to your network
Once you locate the network that you want to connect to, copy its BSSID
and run the command,
$ nmcli -p dev wifi connect "00:03:D8:0A:11:XX"
For a known network, you can use the UUID to connect using,
$ nmcli con up uuid 28d6c265-xxxx-4e83-907f-ecb5ab3ac37c
Deleting a known network
To delete a known network,
$ nmcli con delete uuid "30d29da3-xxxx-4ea2-94ff-0edac8954ff7"