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How to connect to a network from terminal

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I recently updated to 13.10 from 13.04. After rebooting, the system dropped into low graphics mode. I had previously configured a Wireless Broadband connection named "EVDO Connection". How do I connect to this network from terminal?

[note] I tried using LiveCD and then the chroot command but then I was unable to make apt-get install any updates. It did not detect the internet connection.

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answered 1 Year ago soahan · Accepted Answer

Ubuntu's NetworkManager service can be accessed via a command called nmcli. I'm not too sure if it's installed by default, but it seems it is, since it's part of the network-manager package.

To connect to a network, you need to know its NetworkManager ID. You can do so by using the following command:

nmcli connection

This should give you a list similar to this:

yjwong@yjwong-laptop:~/Documents/searchagram/build$ nmcli connection

NAME       UUID                                   TYPE              TIMESTAMP-REAL                    

Wong       6944f99a-21d2-4dd9-8ac4-a140e1024970   802-11-wireless   Fri 27 Sep 2013 04:26:04 PM

rpi        8084e8bd-c52c-4954-8721-0dac198604b7   802-11-wireless   Wed 01 May 2013 04:33:58 AM

AndroidAP  bb3e5a13-98e5-46eb-bfb4-c294f8757070   802-11-wireless   Mon 04 Nov 2013 05:01:11 PM

...

To bring up the "Wong" connection, simply execute:

nmcli connection up Wong

If your connection was named "EVDO Connection" you can execute:

nmcli connection up "EVDO Connection"