How to establish wireless connection from command line?

Question

Can someone please tell me how I can establish connection to my WiFi network from the command line? (My desktop GUI is fried.)

I've tried the following:

sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid NETWORK_NAME
sudo iwconfig wlan0 key s:NETWORK_PASSWORD

However, the second command (to set the password) fails with an error message reading: "Invalid argument".

Thanks.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 01 '11 at 23:38

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I can connect with this command even from the true (not emulated) terminal:

nmcli con up id 'my.net.work'

answered Sep 01 '11 at 23:38

desgua

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