Dell Edge Gateway5000 Series Installation and Operation Manual

Network-Manager is a native Ubuntu Snappy Connection Manger, the application handles multiple network devices, provides detection and configuration for system to automatically connect to network.

A command line utility nmcli is included with Network-Manager to support non-graphical user interface.

WWAN (nmcli example)

• Configure the Mobile Broadband connection profile — network-manager.nmcli con add type gsm ifname ttyACM3 con-name <connection name> apn <apn> user <user name> password <password>
• Connect to the mobile network — # network-manager.nmcli con up <connection name>

WLAN (nmcli example)

• Run the $ network-manager.nmcli d to show a list of network interfaces like eth0, eth1, wlan0, mlan0, and so on
• Run the $ network-manager.nmcli device wifi list to list the available wireless Access Points.
• Wireless connection with nmcli: Run the following commands and replace $SSID, $PSK, and $WIFI_INTERFACE of your environment.
  • Connect: $ sudo network-manager.nmcli dev wifi connect $SSID password $PSK ifname $WIFI_INTERFACE
  • Disconnect: $ sudo network-manager.nmcli dev disconnect $WIFI_INTERFACE

Software enabled Access Point (SoftAP)

This feature depends on the wireless module and it’s associated driver to act as a wireless access point.

1. Login to Ubuntu Snappy, make sure the system is connected to internet.
2. Run the #sudo snap seach wifi-ap command to find the application from the Ubuntu Snappy Store
3. Run the #sudo snap install wifi-ap command to install the application.
4. After snap is installed, run the $ sudo wifi-ap.config set wifi.interface mlan0 to set the network interface being used to operate the access point on.
5. Enable the access point and restart the service:

   $ sudo /snap/bin/wifi-ap.config set disabled 0
                                          $ sudo systemctl start snap.wifi-ap.backend
                                       

   WiFi-AP default SSID Ubuntu should now visible to clients.

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