connect by pushing the button on the router

The below is all done on the command line, so start by opening up your favourite terminal emulator. Sorry but if you follow my istructions below and they don't work for you there's nothing I can add to help you, I literally guessed my way through this process and my understanding of it is minimal). I hope they're helpful, it worked for me and I hope it will work for you too (but if it doesn't please don't hold me responsible and I won't be able to help you diagnose your particular issue/s as I don't have access to a wireless access point with a WPS button, nor do I have access to your particular router/AP type, your laptop type or config. These are the notes I made after successfuly connecting to a wifi network using the WPS button on the router, without the password/key. When the poor posters reiterated that they would happily use the password/key but that they had no way of retriving it, the self important - kept repeating over and over again not to use WPS and use the password/key. All I could find in forums online were pretty much snide comments from some self important telling the hapless posters asking for help that WPS is insecure and that they should be using password/key. I hope this is helpful, before launching into the 'hack it and see' below, I spent some time trying to find some sort of instructions on how to connect to a wireless access point (wifi network connect) if you don't know the password but do have access to the wireless router / access point with a 'WPS' button. Mint 16 and wpa_cli version 1 (But will probably work on many other versions of linux with wpa_cli, part of wpa_suplicant, version 1). How to connect to a wifi network / wireless access point using the WPS button without a password.

Connect by pushing the button on the router