On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 09:26:21PM +0100, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> > with NM.  I started with a simple EWL app that would display status,
> > but ran into a showstopping bug with NM on my Laptop's distro that was
> > causing NM to segfault when reading the status of wireless networks
> > via dbus.
> 
> Do you remember which svn version from NM that was? Today I tested NM
> 3302 and 425 for the gnome applet. Not the newest stuff but known to
> work quite good.
> 
> I tested it with the ipw2915 wifi card in my notebook and found no
> problem so far. Connected to an open, a WEP encrypted, a WPA-PSK and a
> WPA2-PSK encrypted AP.
> 
> Next step is to test this version with e_nm, get some basic
> communication running and then make my way to a newer version. Let's
> see if I can find your bug on this way. It needs to get fixed. ;)

NetworkManager itself works fine!  It's just that I've been able to
reliably crash it via calling a function over dbus.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459323

If I query NM via dbus for info on a wireless network, NM dies.  It
can be reproduced easily via dbus-send:

dbus-send --system --print-reply --type=method_call \ 
--dest=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager \ 
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/eth1/Networks/<SSID> \
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Devices.getAddress

Substitute the SSID for the SSID you want to query.

> > The library code I believe was all committed to CVS.  The sample
> > client I started playing with is probably still on my workstation at
> > home, but because of the NM bug that (afaik) is still unresolved, only
> > really works for trivial cases like a desktop with a single wired
> > connection.
> 
> Still your sample code would be nice to read for me. If you don't mind
> uploading it would be nice.
> 
> Are you still interested in working on this? If yes let me know, then
> I'll try to keep something like a public todo list of my work fopr
> better coordination.

I'd definitely be interested - NetworkManager support is the only real
thing that keeps me tied to Gnome on my laptop!

I'm not much of a GUI developer, but I'll try to dig up the sample
client I was working on tonight.

-- 
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