On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:56 PM, daniel åkerud <[email protected]>wrote:
> > I am trying to automatically connect to a VPN (PPTP) connection through > DBus. I have used the script posted by Tambet Ingo as a starting point, > found here: > http://www.nabble.com/dbus-and-OpenVPN-Autostart-td21905375.html > > The problem is that my Ethernet connection ("Auto Eth1"), that is required > to be connected before the VPN, is not listed through the > org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings.ListConnections function. > > So how do I get the last parameter to ActivateConnection? I.e.: > > iface.ActivateConnection('org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings', > vpn_connection, # = > "/org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/0" which is my VPN > dbus.ObjectPath("/"), > active_connection, # where to get? > reply_handler=reply_handler, > error_handler=error_handler) > > I do have the UUID for both connections, found under > cat /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/Auto eth1 > and > cat ~/.gconf/system/networking/connections/2/connection/%gconf.xml > respectively. > > I am using network-manager-0.7.1~rc4.1.cf199a964 under Ubuntu 9.04. > > Any and all help appreciated. > > BR/D > I'm stuck here, and the PPTP connection goes down several times a day, really frustrating. Anyone can shed some light on this dbus issue? What could trigger that my ethernet connection is not listed in ListConnections? /D
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