Re: Documentation

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 11:10 +0100, Jirka Klimes wrote:
> On Thursday 25 of March 2010 22:37:34 Bluesky_greenleaf wrote:
> > Thanks, But don't find the some examples in source tree of NM in examples
> > directory.
> 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/examples/python
> Actually, there are just 3 examples now.

I do need to make a settings service example too, yeah.  If anyone has
examples to contribute, be they C or python or whatever, lets get them
in there.

Dan

> > Also I still have the confuse for the connection
> > I have the object path /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 for WIFI
> > under the bus name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager, and
> 
> Yes, this is correct.
> 
> > /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/AccessPoint/15 for this connection
> 
> This is, however, not the path of your connection, but path of the AP you want 
> to connect to. This path should be the last parameter (specific_object) of 
> ActivateConnection - instead of "/"; see ActivateConnection description.
> 
> As I've written, connections are configured set of settings and you can see 
> them in nm-connection-editor (right click on nm-applet and choose "Edit 
> connections"). They are provided by so called setting services, which of them 
> are two: user and system service.
> That's why SERVICE variable should be
> SERVICE = "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSystemSettings"
> or
> SERVICE = "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings"
> And the CONNECTION will look like this:
> CONNECTION="/org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/1"
> 
> > 
> > $SERVICE="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"
> > $CONNECTION="/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/AccessPoint/15"
> > $DEVICE="/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0"
> > $ dbus-send --system --print-reply --type=method_call
> > --dest=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager
> > org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.ActivateConnection string:"$SERVICE"
> > objpath:"$CONNECTION" objpath:"$DEVICE" objpath:"/"
> > 
> > Error org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.InvalidService: Invalid settings
> > service name
> > 
> > 
> > If I try the following, it also have the errors:
> > 
> > SERVICE="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSystemSettings"
> >  CONNECTION="/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/AccessPoint/15"
> >  DEVICE="/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0"
> >  dbus-send --system --print-reply --type=method_call
> > --dest='org.freedesktop.NetworkManager' '/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager'
> > org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.ActivateConnection string:"$SERVICE"
> > objpath:"$CONNECTION" objpath:"$DEVICE" objpath:"/"
> > 
> > Error org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.UnknownConnection: Connection was not
> > provided by any settings service
> > 
> > How can I solve this problem? Thanks
> > 
> Use:
> SERVICE="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings"
> CONNECTION="/org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/1"
> DEVICE="/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0"
> AP="/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/AccessPoint/15" 
> 
> dbus-send --system --print-reply --type=method_call --
> dest='org.freedesktop.NetworkManager' \
> '/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager'
> org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.ActivateConnection \
> string:"$SERVICE" objpath:"$CONNECTION" objpath:"$DEVICE" objpath:"$AP"
> 
> The number in CONNECTION may be different, according to your configured 
> connections.
> 
> For list of D-Bus connection paths you can use,
> for user connections:
> dbus-send --system --print-reply  --type=method_call \
> --dest='org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings' \
> '/org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings' \ 
> org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings.ListConnections
> 
> for system connections:
> dbus-send --system --print-reply  --type=method_call \
> --dest='org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSystemSettings' \
> '/org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings' \ 
> org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings.ListConnections
> 
> If you didn't create a connection via nm-connection-editor, you can just left-
> click nm-applet and you can see available APs. When you click an AP, a new 
> connection is created (named "Auto your_AP_SSID").
> 
> A nice python script is also here:
> http://pastebin.com/f37dffb97
> 
> Jirka