Re: Understanding How Networking Manager Manages Wi-Fi



On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 23:41 +0530, Ramprasad Vempati wrote:
Thanks Dan for quick reply. Could you also let me know is this
interaction to wpa_supplicant is controlled by some config file or is
it embedded with-in binary?

NM generates the supplicant configuration from its own internal
configuration, which is stored in /etc in various places depending on
your distro.

And can I configure Network Manager not to manage any of Wi-Fi
Networks but just Wired networks?  If yes, can you help me how can I
do that?

You can tell NM to ignore any interface through its configuration file,
by setting "unmanaged-devices" (see man NetworkManager.conf) or by
tagging all wifi devices with a udev rule to tell NM to ignore them.

Dan

And in that case I'm assuming Network Manager won't even start wpa_supplicant.


On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 19:54 +0530, Ramprasad Vempati wrote:
Hi,

I'm interested to understand the flow, in terms of how Network-Manager
controls Wi-Fi. As far as I know Network Manager talks to
wpa_supplicant.

Yes, through the D-Bus IPC protocol, which many services on Linux use.

But I'm interested in more details. Like how Network-manager starts
wpa_supplicant?

Through D-Bus service activation.  Even if the supplicant is not yet
started, NM asks the supplicant a question, and the D-Bus daemon will
hold the request, start the supplicant, and pass the request along when
it's ready.

And another case I would like to understand is, if I kill
wpa_supplicant that's started by Network-Manager and also remove
wpa_supplicant from /sbin, but run wpa_supplicant from another folder,
does Network-manager finds him & tries to control?

Yes, as long as you've built the supplicant with the D-Bus control
interface enabled (CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE_DBUS_NEW), and you've started the
supplicant with the "-u" option to enable it at runtime.

Dan

I tried google to get this information. But I couldn't find any useful
information.

Can one of you help?

Thanks,
Ram
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