On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 12:43, Tassilo Horn <[email protected]> wrote: > Andrey Borzenkov <[email protected]> writes: > > Hi Andrey, > >>> I once looked at nmcli, but I couldn't figure out how to use it. To >>> be more specific, how do I tell it to connect to the WIFI with SSID >>> "foo" using WPA2 with user "jon" and password "secret"? Currently, I >>> use cnetworkmanager for that. >> >> You can't do it with nmcli; you can only request it to activate >> predefined connection. cnetworkmanager builds connection definition >> on-the-fly > > Ah, I see. > >>> Do I understand it correctly, that currently nmcli only supports >>> connections you have previously setup using nm-applet? >> >> More general. it supports any connection exported by NM >> >>> cannot "see" those. Is that because I use knetworkmanager instead of >>> nm-applet, and thus my credentials are stored in kwallet instead of >>> the Gnome keyring? Or do I need to start a DBUS session bus somehow >>> first? >> >> I do see connections defined in knetworkmanager but it needs >> knetworkmanager running. > > Oh, indeed, I see those, too. But my need is to have a cmd line > interface to networkmanager when I have broken my X install, so there's > no way to start knetworkmanager. You may be interested in my python-networkmanager library: https://github.com/tweakt/python-networkmanager
The wifi support isn't really there yet, and there's some class restructuring that needs to be done, but you might be able to use it as a starting point. _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
