Configuring and Administering Network Components in Oracle® Solaris 11.2

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Updated: September 2014
 
 

Creating Known WLANs

Known WLANs are profiles that store information about wireless networks that are known to your system. NCPs are able to automatically configure wireless interfaces based on configuration information that is supplied by each of the wireless networks to which the system is connected. For more information, see Description of a Known WLAN.

For information about the properties that you might specify when creating or modifying WLANs, see the netcfg(1M) man page.

How to Create a Known WLAN Interactively

  1. Initiate the netcfg interactive session.
    $ netcfg
    netcfg>
  2. Create the Known WLAN.

    The following example creates a Known WLAN that connects to a wireless network named ESSID. The Known WLAN must have the same name as the wireless network name or its ESSID:

    netcfg> create wlan mywifi
    Created wlan 'mywifi'.  Walking properties ...
    priority (0)> 100
    bssids>
    keyname> mywifi-key
    keyslot>
    security-mode [none|wep|wpa]> wpa
    netcfg:wlan:mywifi>

    Creating the WLAN automatically moves you into the profile scope for the WLAN and walks you through each of its properties.

      In this example, the following properties are specified for the mywifi Known WLAN:

    • The value of the priority property is changed from a default value of 0 to 100.

    • The keyname property is set to mywifi-key and specifies the name of the secure object for this wireless network. See Establishing Secure WiFi Communications for more information.

    • The security-mode property is set to wpa. This property specifies the type of encryption that is used by this wireless network.

    • The keyslot and bssid property values are left empty.

  3. (Optional) Display the profile configuration.
    netcfg:wlan:mywifi> list
    known wlan:mywifi
    	priority 		100
    	keyname "mywifi-key"
    	security-mode    wpa
    netcfg:wlan:mywifi>
  4. Verify that the profile configuration is correct.
    netcfg:wlan:mywifi> verify
    All properties verified

    The verify subcommand verifies the configuration and notifies you if any required values are missing.

  5. Save the Known WLAN.
    netcfg:wlan:mywifi> commit
    Committed changes

    The commit subcommand verifies and saves the configuration.

    Alternatively, you can use the end subcommand to end the session, which also saves the profile configuration and moves the session to the global scope.

    netcfg:wlan:mywifi> end
    Committed changes
    netcfg>
  6. Exit the interactive session.
    netcfg> exit