On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 16:01 +0200, Christian Güdel wrote:
> Can you give me some advice on how to use the dbus-send command? I don't
> get howto pass the correct device to it...
The fourth parameter of the getProperties call on a device is the
"active" property. Use that, the order of parameters in the reply will
never change for 0.6.x.
Have fun with shell! Or, you could use Python and make this a _lot_
easier.
Dan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ dbus-send --system --print-reply
--dest=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.getDevices
method return sender=:1.5 -> dest=:1.67
array [
object path "/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/eth0"
object path "/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/eth1"
]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ dbus-send --system --print-reply
--dest=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/eth1
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.getProperties
method return sender=:1.5 -> dest=:1.68
object path "/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/eth1"
string "eth1"
uint32 2
string "/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_xx_xx_xx_xx_xx"
boolean true <<<<<<< ----- 'active': true/false
uint32 7
string "xx.xx.xx.85"
string "255.255.254.0"
string "xx.xx.xx.255"
string "00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx"
string "xx.xx.xx.1"
string "xx.xx.x.138"
string "xx.xx.x.171"
int32 0
int32 80
boolean true
int32 48
uint32 5
uint32 61647
string "/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/eth1/Networks/foobar"
array [
string "/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/eth1/Networks/foobar"
string "/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/eth1/Networks/baz"
string "/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/eth1/Networks/blah"
string "/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/eth1/Networks/bork"
]
In python:
#!/usr/bin/python
import dbus
import sys, os
import time
NM_DBUS_SERVICE = "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"
NM_DBUS_INTERFACE = "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"
NM_DBUS_OPATH = "/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager"
def main():
bus = dbus.SystemBus()
nm_obj = bus.get_object(NM_DBUS_SERVICE, NM_DBUS_OPATH)
nm = dbus.Interface(nm_obj, NM_DBUS_INTERFACE)
# See if wpa_supplicant already knows about this interface
devices = nm.getDevices()
print devices
for op in devices:
dev_obj = bus.get_object(NM_DBUS_SERVICE, op)
dev = dbus.Interface(dev_obj, NM_DBUS_INTERFACE)
props = dev.getProperties()
if props[4] == True:
print "Device %s is the active device" % op
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
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