Re: Querying network state via D-Bus; unexpected result values

[Vratislav Podzimek <vpodzime redhat com>]

On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 15:44 +0100, Jirka Klimes wrote:
> On Monday 28 of November 2011 02:14:07 Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > I'm attempting to interrogate the state of the network condition via
> > Network Manager's D-Bus service.  I can reliably get a value, but the
> > value seems incorrect.
> > 
> > According to
> > <http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/spec-07.html#type-NM_D
> > EVICE_STATE> I expect to see a value of 8 [NM_DEVICE_STATE_ACTIVATED] if
> > the device is online.   But what I see from call is generally a 20 if the
> > interface [Device 0, eth0] is unplugged and a value of 100 if the
> > interface is online.
> > 
> 
> The link you use is for NM 0.7, but according to device states value you 
> apparently use NM 0.9 that changed state codes.
Well, the results when querying google for "network manager dbus api"
are far from being ideal. I fell into that trap too some months ago.

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Vratislav Podzimek

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