Re: Help with adding wifi connections with python

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 11:02 +0000, Jonas Vikstrom wrote:
> Hello,
> I am trying to move from wicd to network-manager and from a python
> point of view it is not easy.
> I have found a number of libraries but non of them works with Ubuntu
> 11.10 (nm 0.9).
> (the project is wireless manager for xbmc)
> These examples are great
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/examples/python
> But do not cover more then one example of security setup.
> I have reviewed the code for nmcli but it does not cover create
> connections.
> I am now pretty close by using this example from this list
> http://osdir.com/ml/networkmanager-list/2010-07/msg00107.html
> It exectutes fine with sudo but the password is not set. I have no
> clue how to find more information and I really need some examples.
> s_con = { 'id': 'XXX', 'uuid': '5ef2d781-1197-44eb-8744-cd78b9c07315',
> 'type': '802-11-wireless', 'autoconnect': False, 'name':
> 'connection' }
> s_wifi = { 'ssid': dbus.ByteArray("XXX"), 'mode': 'infrastructure',
> 'security': '802-11-wireless-security', 'name': '802-11-wireless' } 
> s_wsec = { 'key-mgmt': 'wpa-psk', 'wpa-key': 'xxx', 'name':
> '802-11-wireless-security' } 
> s_ip4 = { 'method': 'auto', 'name': 'ipv4' } 
> con = { 'connection': s_con, '802-11-wireless': s_wifi,
> '802-11-wireless-security': s_wsec, 'ipv4': s_ip4 } 

Is the password set by NetworkManager or does NetworkManager use the
GNOME keyring for the passwords?

I don't know, but I'd check that out.

> This is how far I am nowbefore adding functionality to create
> connections.
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17892827/xbmc/vikjon0-py-nm.py
> http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=119592


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