[Nix-dev] Configure WiFi networks for NetworkManager in configuration.nix?

[Jakob Gillich]

Hi,

there is a open PR for the same thing with wpa_supplicant:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/12015


But declarative configuration of Networkmanger would be nice to
have, too!

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015, at 04:54 PM, Mateusz Czaplinski wrote:
> Hi All. I've recently installed   NixOS on an old notebook. I
> struggled somewhat, especially with network configuration, but in the
> end I managed to configure it using network-manager and "nmcli".
>
> I'd much prefer if I could pre-configure all my default WiFi networks
> for network-manager via configuration.nix, instead of having to set
> them up manually with nmcli. Is that possible?
>
> If it's not possible, I'd like to try contributing such a feature to
> the network-manager package in nixpkgs. Would such a contribution be
> accepted? What API (i.e. example nix expression) would you like to see
> for that, or should I propose one? From some quick reading on the
> Internet, I believe NetworkManager keeps its settings as files in /etc/NetworkManager/system-
> connections/ [1]; if I'm right on that, I assume I should create such
> files from the nix-expression; does that sound correct?
>
> [1]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager/SystemSettings
> Thanks, /Mateusz.
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