On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 19:00 +0000, Nerijus Baliūnas wrote: > Dan Williams <dcbw@...> writes: > > > NM actually does allow you to do that by editing the hotspot connection > > files directly. > > > If you take a look into /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ you > > should see the config file, where you can edit stuff like 'channel', > > 'ssid', 'band', 'pairwise', 'group', 'proto', etc, stuff that's familiar > > to wpa_supplicant config too. See 'man nm-settings' for more details on > > all these key/value pairs. > > I edited /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/Hotspot, ran systemctl > restart NetworkManager and ssid and password were changed. Then I added > channel=10 to the file, restarted NM, but when I enable hotspot in Gnome, > ssid is localhost.localdomain and password is random again. I was not able > to have my edited ssid and password values back. You don't actually need to restart NM, you can simply run "nmcli con reload" to get NM to notice the changes. I don't recall how GNOME Shell handles the Hotspot button in its UI, but you should be able to test independently of GNOME Shell by doing: nmcli con up <name of hotspot connection> Dan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
