On Wed, 2015-09-23 at 23:24 +0530, Ramprasad Vempati wrote: > Thanks Dan. Looks like "unmanaged-devices" works for me. But can I > give wildcard mac-address? I mean can I say something like : > 00:11:22:XX:XX:XX?
It's been progressively expanded with newer versions of NM; look at 'man NetworkManager.conf' for details on what your NM version supports. I don't think you can do partially wildcarded MAC addresses, but you can do stuff like: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 12:29 AM, Dan Williams <d...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 23:41 +0530, Ramprasad Vempati wrote: > >> Thanks Dan for quick reply. Could you also let me know is this > >> interaction to wpa_supplicant is controlled by some config file or is > >> it embedded with-in binary? > > > > NM generates the supplicant configuration from its own internal > > configuration, which is stored in /etc in various places depending on > > your distro. > > > >> And can I configure Network Manager not to manage any of Wi-Fi > >> Networks but just Wired networks? If yes, can you help me how can I > >> do that? > > > > You can tell NM to ignore any interface through its configuration file, > > by setting "unmanaged-devices" (see man NetworkManager.conf) or by > > tagging all wifi devices with a udev rule to tell NM to ignore them. > > > > Dan > > > >> And in that case I'm assuming Network Manager won't even start > >> wpa_supplicant. > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Dan Williams <d...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> > On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 19:54 +0530, Ramprasad Vempati wrote: > >> >> Hi, > >> >> > >> >> I'm interested to understand the flow, in terms of how Network-Manager > >> >> controls Wi-Fi. As far as I know Network Manager talks to > >> >> wpa_supplicant. > >> > > >> > Yes, through the D-Bus IPC protocol, which many services on Linux use. > >> > > >> >> But I'm interested in more details. Like how Network-manager starts > >> >> wpa_supplicant? > >> > > >> > Through D-Bus service activation. Even if the supplicant is not yet > >> > started, NM asks the supplicant a question, and the D-Bus daemon will > >> > hold the request, start the supplicant, and pass the request along when > >> > it's ready. > >> > > >> >> And another case I would like to understand is, if I kill > >> >> wpa_supplicant that's started by Network-Manager and also remove > >> >> wpa_supplicant from /sbin, but run wpa_supplicant from another folder, > >> >> does Network-manager finds him & tries to control? > >> > > >> > Yes, as long as you've built the supplicant with the D-Bus control > >> > interface enabled (CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE_DBUS_NEW), and you've started the > >> > supplicant with the "-u" option to enable it at runtime. > >> > > >> > Dan > >> > > >> >> I tried google to get this information. But I couldn't find any useful > >> >> information. > >> >> > >> >> Can one of you help? > >> >> > >> >> Thanks, > >> >> Ram > >> >> _______________________________________________ > >> >> networkmanager-list mailing list > >> >> networkmanager-list@gnome.org > >> >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > >> > > >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
