Re: networkmanager without X (runlevel 3, 4) ?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 15:27 +0000, Anand Sengupta wrote:
> Hi Dan
> 
> Thanks for your reply. Did you mean there is no GUI-less info-daemon
> for NetworkManager at present and that you are working on it ? That's
> be sweet ! 

Right; but I'm working on something for OLPC, which has usefulness
outside OLPC.  I may not have time to modify it for general use though;
if somebody else could do that it would help.  We could commit that to
CVS too.

Dan

> I wish you the best in writing the info-daemon (together with
> interactive key request).
> 
> Cheers,
> Anand.
> 
> 
> On 11/9/06, Dan Williams < dcbw redhat com> wrote:
>         On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 12:54 +0000, Anand Sengupta wrote: 
>         > Dear All,
>         >
>         > After trying many different wifi managers, I finally
>         discovered
>         > NetworkManager and find it to be absolutely fantastic. I am
>         your
>         > average Joe user (not an expert that is) - and love that 
>         > NetworkManager "simply works" for me without having to
>         google up
>         > strange incantations to make my wireless work.
>         >
>         > I have a couple of old PCs at home running FC5 for which I
>         don't have 
>         > a monitor connected to them. These PCs have wireless cards
>         attached to
>         > them. Can someone explain how to make NetworkManager work at
>         runlevel
>         > 3/4 from the console. I mean I have chkconfg-ed the daemons
>         to run for 
>         > run levels 3 and 4. But how do I latch on to a particular
>         wireless
>         > network from the console mode ? For runlevel  5 - the way it
>         works for
>         > me is that I click on the SSID of the wireless network and
>         supply the 
>         > WEP key when prompted. I am not sure if there is a similar
>         tool in the
>         > console mode.
>         
>         There is currently GUI-less info daemon for NetworkManager,
>         somebody
>         would have to write one.  The info-daemon just stores the
>         networks 
>         you've connected to and responds to requests for them, and
>         does the
>         whole key request thing too.
>         
>         I've actually written a Python info-daemon that doesn't
>         require any UI,
>         for the OLPC project.  It could be pulled out of the GUI bits
>         in about 5 
>         minutes and it stores all the info in .ini-type files in your
>         home
>         directory.  It does _not_ yet handle the interactive key
>         requests,
>         though that's something I'm going to need to make work this
>         weekend.
>         
>         http://dev.laptop.org/git.do?p=sugar;a=blob_plain;h=746ed7f7069f272589c288f102591bbd703a7c71;f=services/nm/nminfo.py
>         
>         Dan
>         
>         
>         > I'd be grateful for your advice.
>         >
>         > Cheers,
>         > Anand.
>         >
>         >
>         > --
>         >
>         -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>         > www.astro.cf.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staff?-k+SenguptaAnand
>         > Phone : +44  (0) 29 2087 5120
>         > Fax : +44  (0) 29 2087 4056
>         >
>         -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>         > _______________________________________________ 
>         > NetworkManager-list mailing list
>         > NetworkManager-list gnome org
>         > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
>         
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> www.astro.cf.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staff?-k+SenguptaAnand
> Phone : +44  (0) 29 2087 5120
> Fax : +44  (0) 29 2087 4056    
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------