On Wednesday 04 February 2009, Philip Rhoades wrote: > Al, > > Al Johnson wrote: > > On Wednesday 04 February 2009, Philip Rhoades wrote: > >> Thanks for the info but I got stuck trying to run my wlan uptime script > >> - there is no eth0 and I can't see how to enable wifi on this setup . . > > > > You need to use the dbus interface to request the wifi resource. > > http://docs.freesmartphone.org/usage-intro.html > > If you want to use the cli to enable it you'll need to use > > SetResourcePolicy to change from 'auto' to 'enabled' to turn it on, then > > back to 'auto' or 'disabled' to turn it off. > > Can you spell out the command and syntax?: > > dbus-send ? mdbus ?
Whichever you prefer, but I use mdbus. Beware line wrap below as each mdbus command is a single line. To enable: mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.usaged /org/freesmartphone/Usage org.freesmartphone.Usage.SetResourcePolicy WiFi enabled To disable: mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.usaged /org/freesmartphone/Usage org.freesmartphone.Usage.SetResourcePolicy WiFi disabled To set it back to automatic: mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.usaged /org/freesmartphone/Usage org.freesmartphone.Usage.SetResourcePolicy WiFi auto If you were wanting to enable wifi from within a program that needed WiFi you would use the RequestResource when you need it, and ReleaseResource when you've finished with it, maintaining the dbus connecton in between. > Why is this not available from the GUI? Because it's only just made it into the API for MS5, and nobody has written a GUI for it yet. Similarly AFAIK there's no GUI for the connman dbus interface yet. Connman is a lightweight alternative to NetworkManager. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
