Re: How to monitor NM progress?

[John Mahoney <jmahoney waav com>]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Rafal Wojtczuk
<rafal invisiblethingslab com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am looking for a way to get a progress notification from Network Manager.
> More specifically, I need a way to be notified when all network interfaces
> (that NM is supposed to take care of) have been brought up (have IFF_UP flag).
> Does anyone have an idea how to achieve this?
>
> It is not enough to wait (in some watchdog living outside of NM) for all interfaces
> to be up, because user can tick "disable wireless" in nm-applet and then NM
> will never make wlan0 up.
>
> Alternatively, is there a way to retrieve all interfaces names that NM is
> supposed to manage ?

For older distros that do not have nmcli there was also the simple
nm-tool which listed info on all devices.

--
John