Re: hitspot automatic connect

[Andreas Müller <schnitzeltony googlemail com>]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-10-24 at 11:18 +0200, Andreas Müller wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Thomas Haller <thaller redhat com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2014-10-24 at 10:19 +0200, Andreas Müller wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > >
> > > > Now my question:
> > > >
> > > > What does it need to start hotspot automatically after boot? If there
> > > > is no setting available I could create a script/app using
> > > > Networkmanager's dbus
> > > >
> > > > I would be very happy if somebody could help me because for me this is
> > > > the last part of the puzzle and solving would make me run in happy
> > > > mode :)
> > >
> > >
> > > you certainly could use the DBUS interface.
> > > But maybe it's easier to use "nmcli connection up"?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thomas
> > Thomas, you are my hero of the day - thanks a lot.
>
> If there are no other WiFi connections defined on the system (nmcli con
> | grep wireless) and the AP connection is the only one, and set
> autoconnect=true, then NM will always bring that connection up when
> starting.  If you do have other wifi connections that you periodically
> use, you could set all of them autoconnect=no, and NM will ignore them
> and always start the AP connection.
>
> Dan
Sorry for late response - but autoconnect=true did not work - that's
why I asked here. Have a 'fresh' embedded system not connected to
other access points before.

I am using networkmanager 0.9.8.10 - other (eth0 / wlan connections to
other hotspots) autoconnections seem to work...

Andreas