Folks

Is there a way in CENTOS6 to define and turn on wireless from the command line. My environment is as follows:

I'm trying to build a laptop for travel, and have KVM-guests for both Linux Gui and Windows, using internal NAT networking. The underlying host machine doesn't really need to be much more than a NAT provider, and the usual command-line utilities.

When I arrive at a new location, and have the network ID and password in hand, I don't mind executing some kind of script (on the host) to create the connection. But when I return to that network weeks later, it should be very easy to complete the connection. This needs to be done in the host machine, not in the clients.

So far, I've figured out the following:

I issued the following iwconfig wlan0 up

(Manually I issued iwlist wlan0 scan | grep ESSID and identified the right network )

I then issued wpa_passphrase {ename} "{pass-phrase}" >> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

where {ename} is the name of the network, case sensitive and {pass-phrase} is the same as I would enter in the GUI interface, if I wanted to use it.

What more is needed? I really want to avoid GUI interfaces if possible.

Thanks David Kurn