wifi

[Fergal Cassidy]

I am using Ubuntu core 16.04 LTS and have successfully installed cockit and can connect to wifi using a terminal session and nmcli commands.

Id like to be able to connect to wifi access points directly within cockpit instead of having to launch a terminal and use nmcli commands. The documentation states

"If available on the system, Cockpit uses NetworkManager and the DBus APIs it provides to interact with the system's network configuration."

It looks like my system meets the criteria of NetworkManager and the DBus APIs being available. The wifi interface appears and all the option look the same as a wired interface. I dont get any wifi connection options. Is there something missing on my system?

[Martin Pitt]

Hello Fergal,

Fergal Cassidy [2021-03-01 17:07 -0000]:
> Id like to be able to connect to wifi access points directly within cockpit instead of having to launch a terminal and use nmcli commands.
> I dont get any wifi connection options. Is there something missing on my system?

There is nothing missing. Cockpit's Networking page simply does not support
wifi devices. There has been an old attempt to do that here:
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/13616
But it was never finished.

If someone from the community wants to pick this up, we will gladly provide
assistance. The main requirements are (1) it does not add new UI to the page
*if* the machine does not have wifi devices, and (2) it gets integration tests
to make sure this keeps working (that's possible with mac80211hwsim and
hostapd, demo in https://people.debian.org/~mpitt/talk-simulate-hardware/wifi.sh)

Martin