Al,
Al Johnson wrote: > 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 I get: "Service name not found" Thanks, Phil. > 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. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: p...@pricom.com.au _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
