How to do mobile broadband from command line

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 15:20 +0100, Yegor Yefremov wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2014-03-14 at 11:42 +0100, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
> >> Hey Yegor,
> >>
> >> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Yegor Yefremov
> >> <yegorslists at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> > I have some questions regarding NetworkManager<->ModemManager integration.
> >> >
> >> > 1. how do I create a connection in nm, that is later referenced by its
> >> > id in "nmcli connection up"? I saw examples with "edit" command but nm
> >> > 0.9.8.8 says: Error: 'con' command 'edit' is not valid.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Try using nm-connection-editor (GTK+ based UI app). Don't know in
> >> which version the nmcli support for editing connections was added.
> >> Dan?
> >
> > The direct edit functionality was added to NM 0.9.9, so no, it's not
> > available in 0.9.8 and lower.
> >
> > For example, here's a minimal WWAN connection, which should go
> > into /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ and be mode 0600 and owned
> > by root:
> >
> > [connection]
> > id=wwan
> > uuid=15d742f1-2b5a-421e-9f27-fcb1fc26d72c
> > type=gsm
> > autoconnect=false
> >
> > [ipv4]
> > method=auto
> >
> > [gsm]
> > number=*99#
> > username=blahblah
> > password=blahblah
> > apn=internet
> >
> > Then you can use "nmcli con up wwan" and "nmcli con down wwan".
> 
> Thanks for the info. I've managed to compile the latest git version of
> NM in Buildroot. NM provides even a small terminal based GUI, where
> you can create/edit connections. Waiting for the final version to be
> released.
> 
> P.S. NM still lacks udhcpc backend.

Yeah, it does; want to contribute one?  We'll take it!

Dan