Thanks for your feedback.
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 23:47 +0800, Zhe Su wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm writing an application which needs to control network manager
> > via its dbus service, especially to connect the wifi to a specified
> > access point. I'm using openSUSE 11 with network manager 0.7. After
> > reading the documentation and source code of network manager applet, I
> > found that a connection object must be created for the access point
> > before calling network manager to activate the ap. However seems that
> > it's only possible to create connection object by using functions
> > provided by libnm-{glib,utils}. There is no corresponding methods
> > exported through dbus. But I don't want to make my application depend
> > on libnm.
> > So I'm wondering if there is any way to achieve my goal with nm's
> > dbus service only?
>
> Do you expect the applet to be running alongside your program?
Yes.
>
> _Something_ needs to provide the Connection details to NetworkManager,
> and right now that's the applet. If you want to replace the applet and
> provide your own org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings service,
> that would work.
I'm going to use existing settings service instead of providing a new one.
The problem is, current org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings interface
doesn't have a method to create a new connection for a specific device and
access point, which makes it impossible to activate the device in my
application if there is no connection for that device yet. And it might be
handy to have a method in org.freedesktop.NetworkManager to activate a
specific device without specifying the connection (a temporary default
connection shall be created and used by network manager), so that network
manager can still work in many cases without settings service.
And when will nm 0.7 be released officially?
Regards
James Su
>
> Once you have provided the connection object over D-Bus, NM can find it,
> and you can tell NM to activate that connection. You can BSS-lock that
> connection to the particular AP you're interested in.
>
> Dan
>
>
>
>
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