On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Joe Barnett wrote:
> On 6/3/05, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Joe Barnett wrote: > > > Has anyone gotten head NM to work on ubuntu breezy? the dhcp client > > > package claims it has the "redhat patches for dhcdbd", but if i set up > > > dhcdbd (from http://people.ubuntu.com/~thom/dhcdbd-1.5.tar.gz), it > > > seems to be passing an argument that dhclient doesn't understand. > > > looking at it a little bit more, it seems the "-x" option is not > > > recognized by dhclient, but removing the -x from the arguments list > > > (by editing dhcdbd.c) doesn't result in a dhcp lease when dhcdbd > > > invokes dhclient, either... > > > > There is a bit of architectural stuff in dhclient and dhclient-script that > > work > > with dhcdbd. First, there's a patch to dhclient to accept the -x argument > > and > > pass _all_ dhcp options to dhclient-script. Second, there are changes to > > dhclient-script to send those options to dhcdbd with dbus-send. These > > changes > > are in Fedora Core dhclient RPMS as of 3.0.2-12 and later. You'll have to > > pick > > up the patch from there. I can keep pushing Jason Vas Dias to get the > > patches > > upstream, but for the moment they are local. > > > > However, I think most everyone will agree that using dhclient is better than > > using the old internal DHCP client. Furthermore, if people would like to > > use > > Simon Kelley's DHCP client we can make NetworkManager work with that too. > > Its > > lighterweight and should do the same thing. > > > > > Also, what is the "preferred" way for having nm-applet run? It gets > > > put in libexec, so I assume the user isn't supposed to run it > > > directly, but I'm not sure what the user IS supposed to run ... > > > > Technically, you add it to you gnome session, or use > > gnome-session-properties' > > "Startup Programs" tab to make it start every time if you're not using > > session > > saving. You should only have to run it once (to add it to the session if > > you > > _are_ using session saving) or add it to "Startup Programs" in > > gnome-session-properties once, and then you shouldn't have to touch it > > again. > > > > Unfortunately, there isn't a good automatic way to add stuff to the GNOME > > session at this time. > > > > Dan > > > > > Thanks Dan, > > Looks like the ubuntu packages picked up the dhclient-script changes, > but not the -x argument patch. If I can't get that patch to work, > I'll try Simon Kelley's dhcp client. I'll look into those when I get > a chance, and report my results. Simon's client is going to need changes to NetworkManager though, unless he used the same dbus API that Jason did for dhclient... What I meant to say is that I'm happy to add code (as time permits) for Simon's client if people want to use it. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
