Re: No dhclient started for wireless card

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

On 4/22/07, Darren Albers <dalbers gmail com> wrote:
> 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

Now that I think about it, I have some vague memories of others doing
the same thing you described on this list so you may want to search
the archives first (gmane might be the easiest).