The network card I am going to be using is the Intel Centrino 135 which sits on the mini PCI-E slot below the card. After connecting the board, I couldn't find proper docs for connecting to a secured network so here it is.
Connect to the board through puTTy, then run the command connmanctl. The prompt should change to connmantcl>
Now go ahead and enable wifi by running the command
enable wifi
After wifi is enabled, you have to manually initiate the scan, type,
scan wifi.
Now before we connect, we need to see the networks that have been detected, we can see that by running,
services
Now it's time to connect, however before connecting to a secure network we need to enable a agent that will use wpa_supplicant to authenticate. Thereby run
agent on
Now all you have to do is hit
connect (tab) ...
until
connect wifi_xxx_XXXX
Now the agent will ask for the passphrase, enter it and you are connected, viola !