[oi-dev] [developer] CLI Tools to manage wireless networks (WiFi)

[Peter Tribble]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM Atiq Rahman <atiqcx at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> What's the alternative of `nmcli` that we use on Linux to easily connect
> to WiFi networks.
>
> What's the equivalent tool on OI/Illumos? Is it something related to
> wpa_supplicant?
>

Configuring networking will use dladm. You're likely to use:

dladm show-phys
dladm show-wifi
dladm scan-wifi
dladm connect-wifi ...


> Best!
>
> Atiq
>
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