Get Wifi Password Into Ubuntu Touch

Question

So tonight I flashed my Nexus 7 with Ubuntu Touch, however I'm having an issue. My wireless is protected with a 63 character WPA2 password. Whenever I try typing it in manually and hit "Connect" nothing happens, I'm guessing because I just take too long to enter the password. Whenever I try putting the password in the terminal it just bumps down to a > prompt, like I have unclosed quotes, even if I try enclosing the whole password in double quotes. There's no "paste" option in the guified way to connect to the wireless, so I'm really at a loss as to how I can leave my wireless protected AND get the password punched into Ubuntu Touch, :-(

Works fine if I turn off the password.

Answer 1

had the same problem today and found your thread^^, so I started myself to solve the problem. I did the same as you did, except I used the conf file from the phone and put the psk in. The file should look like this and is in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/

[connection]
id=<<<FILE NAME HERE(SSID>>>
uuid=<<< HERE IS A UUID>>>
type=802-11-wireless

[802-11-wireless]
ssid=<<<SSID HERE>>>
mode=infrastructure
mac- address=<<<MAC ADDRESS HERE>>>
security=802-11-wireless-security

[802-11-wireless-security]
key-mgmt=wpa-psk
auth-alg=open
psk=<<<PASSPHRASE HERE>>>

[ipv4]
method=auto

[ipv6]
method=auto

thats it. I copied the file with the shell app to ~/Documents so I could use Kate to edit it. chmod 777 is your friend. when you put it back chmod 600. Then I restarted the phone, but I don't know if it's necessary.

P.S. This is for WPA/WPA2