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I am trying to connect to wifi through python and linux terminal but in both cases it is not working with me.
For python, I am using this library https://wifi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/scanning.html
scanning and saving the scheme is working fine but whenever I type this line of code
scheme.activate() and I get no output
Any ideas what is wrong with the library and if you have used it before or not??
I tried also to connect to WiFi networks using the CLI. I Googled and found that I should do these three statements
1- iwlist wlan0 scan // to scan the wireess networks
2- iwconfig wlan0 essid "Mywirelessnetwork" // to associate with the network
3- dhclient wla0 // To get an UP
Whenever I do step 2 and then check iwconfig wlan0 I found that the wireless interface is not associated !!
Any ideas ???
What I am trying to do is to have a library of a way to connect to the wifi preferably through a python function or a library and tested on raspberry PI because I am building some applications that require network connection.
Here is a general approach using python os
module and Linux iwlist
command for searching through the list of wifi devices and nmcli
command in order to connect to a the intended device.
In this code the run function finds the SSID of devices that match with your specified name (which can be a regex pattern or a unique part of the server name) then connects to all the devices that match with your expected criteria, by calling the connection
function.
"""
Search for a specific wifi ssid and connect to it.
written by kasramvd.
"""
import os
class Finder:
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
self.server_name = kwargs['server_name']
self.password = kwargs['password']
self.interface_name = kwargs['interface']
self.main_dict = {}
def run(self):
command = """sudo iwlist wlp2s0 scan | grep -ioE 'ssid:"(.*{}.*)'"""
result = os.popen(command.format(self.server_name))
result = list(result)
if "Device or resource busy" in result:
return None
else:
ssid_list = [item.lstrip('SSID:').strip('"\n') for item in result]
print("Successfully get ssids {}".format(str(ssid_list)))
for name in ssid_list:
try:
result = self.connection(name)
except Exception as exp:
print("Couldn't connect to name : {}. {}".format(name, exp))
else:
if result:
print("Successfully connected to {}".format(name))
def connection(self, name):
try:
os.system("nmcli d wifi connect {} password {} iface {}".format(name,
self.password,
self.interface_name))
except:
raise
else:
return True
if __name__ == "__main__":
# Server_name is a case insensitive string, and/or regex pattern which demonstrates
# the name of targeted WIFI device or a unique part of it.
server_name = "example_name"
password = "your_password"
interface_name = "your_interface_name" # i. e wlp2s0
F = Finder(server_name=server_name,
password=password,
interface=interface_name)
F.run()
At first try to look at these links:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/python-wicd
https://wifi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
And if you want to use bash commands via python try this code:
from subprocess import Popen, STDOUT, PIPE
from time import sleep
handle = Popen('netsh wlan connect wifi_name', stdout=PIPE, stdin=PIPE, shell=True, stderr=STDOUT)
sleep(10)
handle.stdin.write(b'wifi_password\n')
while handle.poll() == None:
print handle.stdout.readline().strip() # print the result
But make sure you are running as a super user in Linux but there is no problem in Windows.