Re: How Embedded is NetworkManager

[Dan Winship <danw gnome org>]

On 01/09/2015 12:45 PM, Richard Willis wrote:
> This project uses multiple networking interfaces (Eth, WiFi, GSM-Radio,
> Bluetooth) but runs as a “headless” black box, gathering telemetry
> information and providing some gateway support. NetworkManager would be
> a very good fit for this device, but I am concerned that NetworkManager
> may have link dependencies for GUI support, something the product does
> not have.
>
> I’m interesting in hearing if anyone has tried running NetworkManager
> without any GUI.. is it possible?

NetworkManager itself has no gui dependency, and as of 0.9.10, there's a
curses-based connection editor (nmtui) so you don't even have to write
out the config files by hand if you don't want to. (In addition to
"nmcli", which is a more powerful command-line-based tool that can be
used to perform just about any operation that NetworkManager exposes
over D-Bus.)

-- Dan