Re: No dhclient started for wireless card

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

On 4/22/07, Lea Wiemann <LeWiemann gmail com> wrote:
> Darren Albers wrote:
>
> > How are you controlling Network Manager without the GUI?  VIA Dbus?
>
> Oooh, now I see what's going wrong.  I assumed I didn't need to control
> it because it automatically runs the DHCP client for eth0, but it turns
> out I do need to have a GUI frontend to make it associate to a wireless.
>
> And if I run KNetworkManager and click one of the wireless networks, it
> works fine indeed.
>
> > I don't think NM can be used from a console without calling it through
> > dbus.
>
> Oh, that's too bad.
>
> > Why are you trying to run NM without one of the GUI's?
>
> I'm running neither KDE nor GNOME, so a system tray applet is fairly
> useless to me.  (My window manager is Ion3, in case you're curious.)  I
> don't normally use the mouse anyway, and the applets only seem to be
> controllable using a mouse.
>
> Hmm.
>
> So the right way to control NetworkManager from the console would be to
> write a script that sends dbus messages to NetworkManager, right?  Can
> you give me a hint where to start looking for the dbus messages I can
> send and receive?  Is there a spec, or should I best look at the
> NetworkManager source, or at the KNetworkManager source?
>
> // Lea

This is correct, unfortunately I personally cannot give you any hints
but if you take this on I am sure that a lot of others would be
interested in seeing the results.

There is a listing of all the api's used in the source tarball under
docs and an example (using python) under docs.

Here is a link to the document in SVN (Note this is for the 6.5 release):
http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/NetworkManager/tags/NETWORKMANAGER_0_6_5_RELEASE/docs/NetworkManager%20DBUS%20API.txt?revision=2558&view=markup