From astridnova at gmail.com  Mon Oct 22 20:58:20 2018
From: astridnova at gmail.com (Astrid Nova)
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 20:58:20 +1100
Subject: [Debian-au] How to use /etc/init.d/networking with Optus-supplied
	password?
Message-ID: <CAG8KK5q88MjXypaa+fxMyqZVFbTHN8knzPzzY2xrnjyWGrPgtQ@mail.gmail.com>

I am staying at a friend's house and have to use his Optus ISP to connect
to the Internet. Optus requires that a supplied password be used to
connect, something like:

GHIUOKGHDSHGQW6543

Whilst my partner was able to connect with her Micro$oft laptop, I am not
able to work out how to connect my Ubuntu Linux desktop.

I could be mistaken, but it seems likely that the script
/etc/init.d/networking is what can do this for me. It seems that the
command ifup called from within this script may be the means to do this. If
I am right, then should the password be somehow passed to ifup as a
parameter? How do I do this?

Or is this not even close to the correct way to connect?

Thank you,

Astrid
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From ben+debian at benfinney.id.au  Tue Oct 23 10:57:55 2018
From: ben+debian at benfinney.id.au (Ben Finney)
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 10:57:55 +1100
Subject: [Debian-au] How to use /etc/init.d/networking with
 Optus-supplied password?
In-Reply-To: <CAG8KK5q88MjXypaa+fxMyqZVFbTHN8knzPzzY2xrnjyWGrPgtQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAG8KK5q88MjXypaa+fxMyqZVFbTHN8knzPzzY2xrnjyWGrPgtQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20181022235755.GH28245@benfinney.id.au>

On 22-Oct-2018, Astrid Nova wrote:
> I am staying at a friend's house and have to use his Optus ISP to
> connect to the Internet.

Thanks for reaching out to us for advice.

> Optus requires that a supplied password be used to
> connect [?]
> Whilst my partner was able to connect with her Micro$oft laptop, I
> am not able to work out how to connect my Ubuntu Linux desktop.

Probably your simplest path will be to use NetworkManager. I am not
sure what graphical UI comes with Ubuntu to use NetworkManager, but
here on my Debian Buster system with Gnome 3 the control panel is
reached at:

    <System Key> ? Settings ? Wi-Fi

When you turn on your Wi-Fi interface, that will show information
provided by NetworkManager, the currently visible Wi-Fi (802.11)
networks in range. You then select one and continue with the prompts.

> I could be mistaken, but it seems likely that the script
> /etc/init.d/networking is what can do this for me.

Most of the functionality that used to be configured that way has
migrated to NetworkManager.

Let us know if you that helps or if you have more detail of what might
be wrong.

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Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au>
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