Re: Restarting connection with dbus

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 14:14 +0200, Christian G�rote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 08:09 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > If you want to reset the currently active connection, you'll need to
> > query NM to find out what that connection is first.  But first, why?
> > What are you trying to do?  If you're trying to work around a problem,
> > maybe a few more details could help us fix it in the code.
> 
> Our network at school needs 802.11x authentication (as stated in an
> earlier post to this list). Now that NM doesn't support 802.11x on wired
> networks, I want to work around this:
> 
> A dispatcher script looks for a 172.41.xx.xx ip address (which is one of
> the not authenticated pool). If it finds that ip, it starts
> wpa_supplicant on the wired interface. Now it restarts the connection
> via dbus, and I get a 172.40.xx.xx ip (which is authenticated).
> 
> I don't think you can fix this in the code so easy...

Yeah, not in 0.6x at least.  The wpa_supplicant controller is being
refactored in HEAD to support wired but that is unlikely to get
backported.

dan


> // Christian
>