Re: announcing cnetworkmanager

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 16:40 +0200, Martin Vidner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> [10]cnetworkmanager is a command line interface for [11]Network
> Manager. It is still lacking many features but I decided to announce
> it now, when it can:
> 
>     1. connect to WiFi networks
>     2. read the configuration file of [12]KNetworkManager
> 
> It is working for me on RC1 of openSUSE-11.0, which has
> NetworkManager-0.7.0.r3685-3. It is my first project in Python, so
> the code is somewhat cumbersome. Thanks to [13]Miso for getting me
> started ([14]idea.o.o, [15]abclinuxu.cz), and [16]Bille for the API
> docs.

Pretty cool! we do need a CLI client.  Let me know if you need anything
explained.

Dan

> Regarding related projects, I have seen [17]network-manager-cli, but
> it is for 0.6 only and the developers were only active last August,
> so I decided that I should first write some working code for 0.7.
> 
> I am interested in comments, bugs, feature requests, patches, any
> feedback.
> 
> Here are some screenshots ;-)
> 
> $ cnetworkmanager -h
> cnetworkmanager 0.3 - Command Line Interface for NetworkManager
> Options:
>   -d, --dev     list devices
>   -c, --actcon  list active connections
>   -s, --syscon  list system connection settings
>   -u, --usrcon  list user connection settings (can CRASH nm-applet)
>   -a, --ap      list found access points
>   -n, --nets    list found wireless networks
>   -C<net>, --connect=<net> connect to a wireless network (using knetworkmanagerrc)
>   -m, --monitor loop to show dbus signals
> 
> Listing the networks:
> $ cnetworkmanager -n
> cnetworkmanager 0.3 - Command Line Interface for NetworkManager
> Wifi Networks:
>  49: onenet (54Mb, protected)
>  46: IT (54Mb, protected)
>  48: TiborBrunclik (11Mb, protected)
>  46: linksys (54Mb)
>  46: IT (54Mb, protected)
>  46: 23 (54Mb)
> 
> Links:
>   10. http://vidner.net/martin/software/cnetworkmanager/
>   11. http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/
>   12. http://en.opensuse.org/Projects/KNetworkManager
>   13. http://en.opensuse.org/User:Mzugec
>   14. http://idea.opensuse.org/content/ideas/control-networkmanager-from-cli
>   15. http://www.abclinuxu.cz/blog/iSCSI_initiator_howto/2008/2/networkmanager-d-bus-python
>   16. http://www.kdedevelopers.org/blog/77
>   17. http://code.google.com/p/network-manager-cli/
>   $self. http://mvidner.blogspot.com/2008/05/try-cnetworkmanager-03.html
>