Re: System settings with keyfile
- From: Robert Piasek <robert piasek co uk>
- To: networkmanager-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: System settings with keyfile
- Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:32:19 +0100
Hi Dan,
The example you've sent me was great. I had to adjust it to WPA, but after I
got ssid part correctly it wasn't a problem. During my testing I observed some
strange timeouts.
Here are some logs:
1) I start /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon and
/etc/NetworkManager/system-setting directory is empty:
networkmanager starts:
NetworkManager: <info> Found radio killswitch
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ipw_wlan_switch
NetworkManager: <info> eth0: Device is fully-supported using driver 'r8169'.
NetworkManager: <info> Found new Ethernet device 'eth0'.
NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): exported as
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_1b_fc_4a_4a_20
NetworkManager: <info> wlan0: Device is fully-supported using driver
'iwl4965'.
NetworkManager: <info> wlan0: driver supports SSID scans (scan_capa 0x01).
NetworkManager: <info> Found new wireless (802.11) device 'wlan0'.
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): exported as
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_13_e8_15_64_05
NetworkManager: <WARN> killswitch_getpower_reply(): Error getting killswitch
power: hal-ipw-killswitch-linux returned 255.
NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): device state change: 1 -> 2
NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): bringing up device.
NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): preparing device.
NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): deactivating device.
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 1 -> 2
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): bringing up device.
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): preparing device.
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device.
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 2 -> 3
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state change: 1 -> 2.
now I copy my configuration file to system-settings folder. nm-system-settings
picks it up instantly:
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) starting connection 'Wireless
connection X'
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 3 -> 4
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare)
scheduled...
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare)
started...
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure)
scheduled...
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare)
complete.
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure)
starting...
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 4 -> 5
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0/wireless): connection 'Wireless
connection X' has security, and secrets exist. No new secrets needed.
etworkManager: <info> Config: added 'ssid' value 'dagger'
NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'scan_ssid' value '1'
NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'key_mgmt' value 'WPA-PSK'
NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'psk' value '<omitted>'
NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'pairwise' value 'TKIP CCMP'
NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'group' value 'TKIP CCMP'
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure)
complete.
NetworkManager: <info> Config: set interface ap_scan to 1
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 1 -> 2
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 2 -> 3
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 3 -> 5
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 5 -> 4
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 4 -> 5
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 5 -> 6
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 6 -> 7
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0/wireless) Stage 2 of 5 (Device
Configure) successful. Connected to wireless network 'dagger'.
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start)
scheduled.
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start)
started...
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 5 -> 7
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Beginning DHCP transaction.
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1-Gentoo
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
NetworkManager: <info> dhclient started with pid 23885
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start)
complete.
everything as expected.
2) I start /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon and
/etc/NetworkManager/system-setting directory contains my config file we've got
2 cases (they are pretty random):
case 1)
etworkManager: <info> Found radio killswitch
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ipw_wlan_switch
NetworkManager: <info> eth0: Device is fully-supported using driver 'r8169'.
NetworkManager: <info> Found new Ethernet device 'eth0'.
NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): exported as
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_1b_fc_4a_4a_20
NetworkManager: <info> wlan0: Device is fully-supported using driver
'iwl4965'.
NetworkManager: <info> wlan0: driver supports SSID scans (scan_capa 0x01).
NetworkManager: <info> Found new wireless (802.11) device 'wlan0'.
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): exported as
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_13_e8_15_64_05
NetworkManager: <info> Trying to start the system settings daemon...
NetworkManager: <WARN> killswitch_getpower_reply(): Error getting killswitch
power: hal-ipw-killswitch-linux returned 255.
NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): device state change: 1 -> 2
NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): bringing up device.
NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): preparing device.
NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): deactivating device.
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 1 -> 2
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): bringing up device.
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): preparing device.
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device.
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 2 -> 3
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state change: 1 -> 2.
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) starting connection 'Wireless
connection X'
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 3 -> 4
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare)
scheduled...
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare)
started...
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure)
scheduled...
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare)
complete.
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure)
starting...
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 4 -> 5
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0/wireless): connection 'Wireless
connection X' has security, and secrets exist. No new secrets needed.
etworkManager: <info> Config: added 'ssid' value 'dagger'
NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'scan_ssid' value '1'
NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'key_mgmt' value 'WPA-PSK'
NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'psk' value '<omitted>'
NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'pairwise' value 'TKIP CCMP'
NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'group' value 'TKIP CCMP'
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure)
complete.
NetworkManager: <info> Config: set interface ap_scan to 1
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 2 -> 0
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 0 -> 2
NetworkManager: <info> wlan0: link timed out. <- TIMEOUT HERE
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0/wireless): association took too
long.
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 5 -> 6
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0/wireless): asking for new secrets
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 2 -> 0
NetworkManager: <WARN> get_secrets_cb(): Couldn't get connection secrets: nm-
settings.c.307 - Missing implementation for ConnectionSettings::get_secrets..
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 6 -> 9
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) failed for access point (dagger)
NetworkManager: <info> Marking connection 'Wireless connection X' invalid.
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) failed.
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 9 -> 3
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device.
case 2)
NetworkManager: <info> Config: set interface ap_scan to 1
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 2 -> 0
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 0 -> 2
NetworkManager: <info> wlan0: link timed out. <- ALSO TIMEOUT
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 2 -> 3
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 3 -> 5
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 5 -> 4
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 4 -> 5
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 5 -> 6
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 6 -> 7
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0/wireless) Stage 2 of 5 (Device
Configure) successful. Connected to wireless network 'dagger'.
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start)
scheduled.
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start)
started...
and it start successfully
In both cases it seems we always have supplicant state change:
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 2 -> 0
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 0 -> 2
which doesn't occur if we copy config file later. Maybe NM should wait a bit
longer before timing out.
Also looking at case 1 NM tries to associate with AP only once and if
unsuccessful asks for password again. Maybe it would be worth changing this
behavior to try associate at least twice before asking (please note it's not
system-settings specific. It also happens with nm-applet if first association
wasn't successful - doesn't happen too often, but it's very annoying if you
have to retype your password knowing you've got the right one in your keyring
- even more annoying when your password is 20+ characters long).
Cheers,
Rob
On Sunday 27 July 2008 21:12:13 Robert Piasek wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
>
> Thank you very much for the instructions and your help. I've tried to do it
> myself using keyfile plugin specification, but I stacked on SSID. I
> couldn't figure out how to specify that. I've spend few hours trying before
> I gave up and posted to the mailing list. It would be good to stick it
> somewhere. (like
> http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManagerConfigurationSpecification or
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/)
>
>
> Cheres,
> Rob
>
> On Sunday 27 July 2008 19:45:58 Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 20:04 +0100, Robert Piasek wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Could anyone be kind enough to send me an example of keyfile plugin
> > > file for wireless config?
> >
> > [802-11-wireless-security]
> > key-mgmt=none
> > wep-tx-keyidx=0
> > auth-alg=open
> > wep-key0=33b7af2400ba80f060f144e195
> >
> > [connection]
> > id=Wireless connection 1
> > type=802-11-wireless
> > autoconnect=true
> > timestamp=0
> >
> > [802-11-wireless]
> > ssid=102;111;111;98;97;114;
> > mode=infrastructure
> > channel=0
> > rate=0
> > tx-power=0
> > mtu=0
> > security=802-11-wireless-security
> >
> > [ipv4]
> > method=manual
> > addresses1=192.168.1.2;24;192.168.1.1;
> > routes1=192.168.1.2;24;192.168.1.1;
> > ignore-dhcp-dns=false
> >
> > How I got this:
> >
> > 1) stop NetworkManager
> > 2) killall -TERM nm-system-settings
> > 3) /usr/sbin/nm-system-settings --debug --plugins=keyfile
> > 4) /usr/bin/nm-connection-editor
> > 5) Make a new wireless connection, fill everything out, then hit OK
> > 6) re-open the connection and check the "System connection" checkbox,
> > then hit OK again
> >
> > Steps 5 & 6 may not need to be separate, that's just how I did them
> > because I hit OK too fast in step 5 then remembered why I was there :)
> >
> > The routes1 field is also bogus here and shouldn't be filled in, but
> > apparently we're screwing something up in the connection editor.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > > On Saturday 19 July 2008 01:52:42 Robert Piasek wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I would like to use system wide configuration for NM, but there is no
> > > > native plugin for my distribution. That leaves me with keyfile
> > > > plugin. I've tried to use it, but so far without any luck.
> > > > First I tried to find a decent example of configuration file, but I
> > > > could only find a specification page without any examples. My tries
> > > > to create a config file based on on that specification failed.
> > > >
> > > > Than I tried to save my current config by selecting system settings
> > > > checkbox. But every time I click OK, it always comes up with the
> > > > error message "Adding connection failed: Launch helper exited with
> > > > unknown return code 1." (not very useful error message :p).
> > >
> > > BTW this error message is generated when you try to save your
> > > connection as system-settings, and
> > > /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf does not exists.
> > >
> > > > Since system wide
> > > > settings are using policykit, so I'm _guessing_ it might be related.
> > > > I've added section below to my policykit.conf, but it didn't change
> > > > anything.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > my PolicyKit.conf contains:
> > > >
> > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- XML -*- -->
> > > >
> > > > <!DOCTYPE pkconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit
> > > > Configuration 1.0//EN"
> > > > "http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/PolicyKit/1.0/config.dtd";>
> > > >
> > > > <!-- See the manual page PolicyKit.conf(5) for file format -->
> > > >
> > > > <config version="0.1">
> > > > <match user="my_username">
> > > > <return result="yes"/>
> > > > </match>
> > > > </config>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Any help appreciated.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Rob
> > > >
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