On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 15:27 +0000, Anand Sengupta wrote: > Hi Dan > > Thanks for your reply. Did you mean there is no GUI-less info-daemon > for NetworkManager at present and that you are working on it ? That's > be sweet !
Right; but I'm working on something for OLPC, which has usefulness outside OLPC. I may not have time to modify it for general use though; if somebody else could do that it would help. We could commit that to CVS too. Dan > I wish you the best in writing the info-daemon (together with > interactive key request). > > Cheers, > Anand. > > > On 11/9/06, Dan Williams < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 12:54 +0000, Anand Sengupta wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > After trying many different wifi managers, I finally > discovered > > NetworkManager and find it to be absolutely fantastic. I am > your > > average Joe user (not an expert that is) - and love that > > NetworkManager "simply works" for me without having to > google up > > strange incantations to make my wireless work. > > > > I have a couple of old PCs at home running FC5 for which I > don't have > > a monitor connected to them. These PCs have wireless cards > attached to > > them. Can someone explain how to make NetworkManager work at > runlevel > > 3/4 from the console. I mean I have chkconfg-ed the daemons > to run for > > run levels 3 and 4. But how do I latch on to a particular > wireless > > network from the console mode ? For runlevel 5 - the way it > works for > > me is that I click on the SSID of the wireless network and > supply the > > WEP key when prompted. I am not sure if there is a similar > tool in the > > console mode. > > There is currently GUI-less info daemon for NetworkManager, > somebody > would have to write one. The info-daemon just stores the > networks > you've connected to and responds to requests for them, and > does the > whole key request thing too. > > I've actually written a Python info-daemon that doesn't > require any UI, > for the OLPC project. It could be pulled out of the GUI bits > in about 5 > minutes and it stores all the info in .ini-type files in your > home > directory. It does _not_ yet handle the interactive key > requests, > though that's something I'm going to need to make work this > weekend. > > > http://dev.laptop.org/git.do?p=sugar;a=blob_plain;h=746ed7f7069f272589c288f102591bbd703a7c71;f=services/nm/nminfo.py > > Dan > > > > I'd be grateful for your advice. > > > > Cheers, > > Anand. > > > > > > -- > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > www.astro.cf.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staff?-k+SenguptaAnand > > Phone : +44 (0) 29 2087 5120 > > Fax : +44 (0) 29 2087 4056 > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > > NetworkManager-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > www.astro.cf.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staff?-k+SenguptaAnand > Phone : +44 (0) 29 2087 5120 > Fax : +44 (0) 29 2087 4056 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
