Re: Configure WLAN without applet?

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo member fsf org>]

Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> writes:

Hi Dan,

>> I've recently switched from traditional network setup (with
>> wpa_supplicant) to NetworkManager, and it seems to work pretty well.
>> Unfortunately, to set up encryption one's supposed to use one of
>> these three NM frontends:
>> 
>>       - Gnome NM applet
>>       - knetworkmanager
>>       - pyNetworkManager
>> 
>> I don't want to use the first two, cause I don't use Gnome nor KDE,
>> so I've installed the last one and the applet sits in my XFCE tray.
>> It lists my local WLAN, but the functionality to set a PSK for it
>> seems to be broken.  (Also the webpage states that it is very
>> buggy...)
>
> What version of NetworkManager?  0.6.x or 0.7?

0.6.6.

>> So is it possible to configure that WLAN without any of those
>> applets, maybe with some dbus calls?
>
> Yes, either with shell scripts + dbus-send, or with python and dbus.

Is there some documentation what calls have to be provided?

>> If not, are there other frontends (preferably cli) beside the three
>> above?
>
> Not too many, unfortunately.  Tambet started a python-based CLI
> front-end that he hasn't published yet *hint hint*.

Is it this project? http://code.google.com/p/network-manager-cli/

Bye,
Tassilo