% WIRELESS-DBUS netcfg manuals 
% Arch Linux
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# 'wireless-dbus' Connection manual 
## Description
This connection method uses wpa_supplicant's dbus interface to configure a wireless network connection.

This connection uses the 'ethernet' connection after successful association and thus supports all of it's options. 

This is presently unmaintained and unsupported.

## Options
INTERFACE (required)
:   The wireless interface to configure
SECURITY (required)
:   One of 'wpa', 'wep', 'none' or 'wpa-config'
KEY (required for SECURITY of 'wpa' or 'wep' only)
:   Wireless encryption key. 
ESSID (this or AP is required)
:   Name of network to connect to.
AP (this or ESSID is required)
:   AP of the network to connect to.
TIMEOUT 
:   Time to wait for association. Defaults to 15 seconds. 

### WPA options
WPA_CONF (for SECURITY of 'wpa-config' only)
:   Path to wpa_supplicant configuration. Defaults to '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
WPA_DRIVER 
:   wpa_supplicant driver to be used. Defaults to 'wext' 
WPA_OPTS 
:   Extra arguments for wpa_supplicant not specified otherwise.
