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10.3.2. Establishing a Wireless Connection
Quickly Connecting to an Available Access Point
Figure 10.9. Authenticating to a wireless access point
Note
Figure 10.10. Applet icon indicating a wireless connection signal strength of 75%
Auto <SSID>
, where SSID is the Service Set identifier of the access point.
Figure 10.11. An example of access points that have previously been connected to
Connecting to a Hidden Wireless Network
Editing a Connection, or Creating a Completely New One
Auto
refer to the SSID of an access point), and clicking Edit.
- Right-click on the NetworkManager applet icon in the Notification Area and click Edit Connections. The Network Connections window appears.
- Click thebutton.
- Select the Wireless entry from the list.
- Click thebutton.
Figure 10.12. Editing the newly created Wireless connection 1
Configuring the Connection Name, Auto-Connect Behavior, and Availability Settings
- Connection name — Enter a descriptive name for your network connection. This name will be used to list this connection in the Wireless section of the Network Connections window. By default, wireless connections are named the same as the SSID of the wireless access point. You can rename the wireless connection without affecting its ability to connect, but it is recommended to retain the SSID name.
- Connect automatically — Check this box if you want NetworkManager to auto-connect to this connection when it is available. See Section 10.2.3, “Connecting to a Network Automatically” for more information.
- Available to all users — Check this box to create a connection available to all users on the system. Changing this setting may require
root
privileges. See Section 10.2.4, “User and System Connections” for details.
Configuring the Wireless Tab
- SSID
- All access points have a Service Set identifier to identify them. However, an access point may be configured not to broadcast its SSID, in which case it is hidden, and will not show up in NetworkManager's list of Available networks. You can still connect to a wireless access point that is hiding its SSID as long as you know its SSID (and authentication secrets).For information on connecting to a hidden wireless network, see the section called “Connecting to a Hidden Wireless Network”.
- Mode
- Mode to if you are connecting to a dedicated wireless access point or one built into a network device such as a router or a switch.— SetMode to if you are creating a peer-to-peer network for two or more mobile devices to communicate directly with each other. If you use mode, referred to as Independent Basic Service Set (IBSS) in the 802.11 standard, you must ensure that the same SSID is set for all participating wireless devices, and that they are all communicating over the same channel.— Set
- BSSID
- The Basic Service Set Identifier (BSSID) is the MAC address of the specific wireless access point you are connecting to when in Infrastructure mode. This field is blank by default, and you are able to connect to a wireless access point by SSID without having to specify its BSSID. If the BSSID is specified, it will force the system to associate to a specific access point only.For ad-hoc networks, the BSSID is generated randomly by the
mac80211
subsystem when the ad-hoc network is created. It is not displayed by NetworkManager - MAC address
- Like an Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC), a wireless adapter has a unique MAC address (Media Access Control; also known as a hardware address) that identifies it to the system. Running the
ip addr
command will show the MAC address associated with each interface. For example, in the followingip addr
output, the MAC address for thewlan0
interface (which is00:1c:bf:02:f8:70
) immediately follows thelink/ether
keyword:~]#
ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 1000 link/ether 52:54:00:26:9e:f1 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.122.251/24 brd 192.168.122.255 scope global eth0 inet6 fe80::5054:ff:fe26:9ef1/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP qlen 1000 link/ether 00:1c:bf:02:f8:70 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 10.200.130.67/24 brd 10.200.130.255 scope global wlan0 inet6 fe80::21c:bfff:fe02:f870/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft foreverA single system could have one or more wireless network adapters connected to it. The MAC address field therefore allows you to associate a specific wireless adapter with a specific connection (or connections). As mentioned, you can determine the MAC address using theip addr
command, and then copy and paste that value into the MAC address text-entry field. - MTU
- The MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) value represents the size in bytes of the largest packet that the connection will use to transmit. If set to a non-zero number, only packets of the specified size or smaller will be transmitted. Larger packets are broken up into multiple Ethernet frames. It is recommended to leave this setting on.
Saving Your New (or Modified) Connection and Making Further Configurations
- security authentication for the wireless connection, click the Wireless Security tab and proceed to Section 10.3.9.2, “Configuring Wireless Security”;
- IPv4 settings for the connection, click the IPv4 Settings tab and proceed to Section 10.3.9.4, “Configuring IPv4 Settings”; or,
- IPv6 settings for the connection, click the IPv6 Settings tab and proceed to Section 10.3.9.5, “Configuring IPv6 Settings”.