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6
7<title>Wireless Networks</title>
8
9<para>For a desktop installation using NetworkManager (e.g., GNOME),
10you just have to make sure the user is in the
11<code>networkmanager</code> group and you can skip the rest of this
12section on wireless networks.</para>
13
14<para>
15NixOS will start wpa_supplicant for you if you enable this setting:
16
17<programlisting>
18networking.wireless.enable = true;
19</programlisting>
20
21NixOS currently does not generate wpa_supplicant's
22configuration file, <literal>/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf</literal>. You should edit this file
23yourself to define wireless networks, WPA keys and so on (see
24wpa_supplicant.conf(5)).
25</para>
26
27<para>
28If you are using WPA2 the <command>wpa_passphrase</command> tool might be useful
29to generate the <literal>wpa_supplicant.conf</literal>.
30
31<screen>
32$ wpa_passphrase ESSID PSK > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf</screen>
33
34After you have edited the <literal>wpa_supplicant.conf</literal>,
35you need to restart the wpa_supplicant service.
36
37<screen>
38$ systemctl restart wpa_supplicant.service</screen>
39</para>
40
41</section>