# Enabling Wireless in NixOS Installer

Assuming you have a wireless interface directly supported by the
installer's kernel (and if not, have you tried the unstable
installer ISO yet?), you will need some extra commands beyond the
admittedly brief notes about wpa_supplicant in the installer's
shell and the man page for wpa_cli itself.

As the brief note does say, you can get started with:

```
sudo systemctl start wpa_supplicant`
wpa_cli
```

Once inside the CLI, you then need the following:

```
scan
scan_results
add_network 0
set_network 0 ssid "Some SSID"
set_network 0 psk "some password"
enable_network 0
save_config
quit
```

`dhcpcd` should run automatically.
