Start A Network Connection From The Command Line, SL-C3100 Options

[BarrySamuels]

C3100 with standard Sharp ROM

Can someone give me the required commands to start a specific wireless network connection from the command line please? I want to set up a script to do it.

[daniel3000]

I don't know if it is possible to start a specific network connection, but you can raise the network conection selector dialog from the command line using:

qcop "QPE/Network" "connectRequest()"

A script for establishing a network connection and chacking for availability of Internet could look that way (I have used that a lot for mutt etc.):

CODE

#! /bin/bash

TRY_IP="130.149.4.20"

echo Connecting to Internet...
qcop "QPE/Network" "connectRequest()" > /dev/null 2>&1


ping -c 1 "$TRY_IP"  > /dev/null 2>&1
while [ $? -ne 0 ]
do
 sleep 5
 echo waiting for network...
 ping -c 1 "$TRY_IP" > /dev/null 2>&1
done