Re: libnm

[Kalev Toots <kalev toots eepos ee>]

Thank you for the answer.
This "complicated part" is my problem.
I can activate connection ( NM profile ) and it comes up OK.
But no feedback. If no connection activation with feedback example
out there, I have to examine connection.c again.

best regards
Kalev

15.02.2019 14:13 Thomas Haller kirjutas:
> On Fri, 2019-02-15 at 12:32 +0200, Kalev Toots wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I try to connect 3G GSM modem to network using Network Manager,libnm
> > API
> > and C/C++ code.
> > I cannot find any C/C++ example code which connects prepared NM
> > profile
> > to network
> > and waits until connection is up or error or timeout. Can anybody
> > direct
> > me to such
> > piece of code.
> Hi,
>
>
> see https://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/examples/C
>
>
> NetworkManager is profile based, that means in one step you create the
> profile to your liking, then you just call
> nm_client_activate_connection_async(). This returns you a D-Bus path to
> the NMActiveConnection (which represents the activation and ties the
> profile (NMRemoteConnection) to the device (NMDevice).
>
> See for example,
>
> nmcli: 
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/clients/cli/connections.c?id=c032690df227a609fc4b47c78269448576b6bda1#n2790
> The complicated part is waiting until the profile is fully activated:
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/clients/cli/connections.c?id=c032690df227a609fc4b47c78269448576b6bda1#n2584
>
>
> Another example is the ansible-role (Which is Python with libnm via GObject introspection):
> https://github.com/linux-system-roles/network/blob/master/library/network_connections.py#L1083
> This is a rather unconventional example, because it manually iterates the
> glib mainloop. If you are unclear how to use the glib mainloop, then this might
> *not* be the example to look at.
>
>
> best,
> Thomas