On Wed, January 18, 2017 4:24 am, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: > You could say the same thing about computers in general: > I hate them, they automated many tasks in life and took many jobs out of > the > market!. And they suck. All systems suck. And thanks to that I got my job. Valeri > > Eliezer > > ---- > Eliezer Croitoru > Linux System Administrator > Mobile: +972-5-28704261 > Email: eliezer at ngtech.co.il > > > -----Original Message----- > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Gary > Stainburn > Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 11:34 AM > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Reliable way of having both LAN and WIFI on headless > box > > On Friday 13 January 2017 12:40:33 Gianluca Cecchi wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 12:33 PM, Gary Stainburn <gary at ringways.co.uk> >> >> wrote: >> > Also, it was suggested that I use nmcli in a cronjob to re-activate >> > it if it drops. I can check to see if it's still active by >> > 'grep'ing the IP address, but I don't know the nmcli to re-activate >> > an existing WIFI connection. >> > >> > Can anyone help here too, just in case I can't fix the real problem >> >> I have a wireless connection named "AndroidAP-notepro" >> >> So I can run >> >> # nmcli con show --active | grep AndroidAP-notepro AndroidAP-notepro >> 62d0fc1f-91b8-4c07-baf0-323cf1c108d1 802-11-wireless >> wlp3s0 >> # >> >> You can check exit code and number of lines. >> If number of lines is 0, it means the connection is not active and you >> can try to activate it and get exit code of the command >> >> # nmcli con up AndroidAP-notepro >> >> Also, it could be useful to know what value you have for >> "connection.autoconnect" for this connection. >> If it is yes, in theory it should automatically reactivate when it >> returns available. >> >> In my case my AndroidAP-notepro connection is to be manually activated >> and in fact I have >> >> # nmcli con show AndroidAP-notepro | grep connection.autoconnect: >> connection.autoconnect: no >> # >> >> In case you also have autoconnect set to no, If you don't have a gui >> you should be able to set it up with >> >> # nmcli con mod AndroidAP-notepro connection.autoconnect yes >> >> HIH, >> Gianluca > > Hi Gianluca > > Thanks for this. I will put this into a cron job to bring the link back > up > if it drops. However, as you can see it shouldn't ne needed. One more > reason I hate NetworkManager > > [root at lcomp2 ~]# nmcli con show RW-WIFI |grep connection.autoconnect > connection.autoconnect: yes > connection.autoconnect-priority: 0 > connection.autoconnect-slaves: -1 (default) > [root at lcomp2 ~]# > > > Gary > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++