network manager command-line control?
Dan Williams
dcbw at redhat.com
Mon Jan 21 17:26:01 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 11:19 +0200, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 11:37 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 10:43 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > > I want to make sure I'm not missing something before I file an RFE. I'd like
> > > to be able to enable/disable wireless (or wired, for that matter) networking
> > > from scripts. The nm-tool program seems like the logical place for this
> > > functionality, but it doesn't appear to actually have it at this point.
> >
> > All the functionality is currently available with dbus-send. However,
> > since that's the case, it would be nice to have a CLI tool that
> > interfaces in a nicer manner than dbus-send. I'd like to have something
> > like that too, but haven't had time to look into it. It would be a
> > great opportunity for somebody to jump in.
>
> Is there a list of (important) dbus methods exported by NM? I'm trying
> to work out a way of bringing up a wireless network early in the boot
> process in F8 and have been unable to even get a list of devices.
Hmm, I'm about to land that functionality in F8 and rawhide in the next
few weeks anyway...
Dan
> Trying to run (which looks like it's supposed to work in 0.6):
> >>> import dbus
> >>> bus = dbus.SystemBus()
> >>> iface = bus.get_object('org.freedesktop.NetworkManager', '/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager')
> >>> devs = iface.getDevices(dbus_interface='org.freedesktop.NetworkManager')
> or
> >>> devs = iface.getDevices(dbus_interface='org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Devices')
>
> gives me:
>
> dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod:
> Method "getDevices" with signature "" on interface
> "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" doesn't exist
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Jonathan
>
>
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