On Mon, 2016-02-29 at 17:40 -0800, Ali Nematollahi wrote: > Thanks! I've looked at nmcli radio but there is no good documentation > I > could find for the version I am using. All of the documentation is > for > newer version and don't apply.
Yeah, you say later you're using NM 0.9.4, which is extremely old (23- Mar-2012) and I'm not surprised some stuff would be different... > First of all, when I do: > > nmcli nm wwan > WWAN > disabled > > Then I do: > nmcli nm wwan on > nmcli nm wwan > WWAN > disabled > > nmcli nm status > RUNNING STATE WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN- > HARDWARE > WWAN > running connected enabled enabled enabled > disabled What's in /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state ? Can you turn on NM log debugging (might be an nmcli command for that) and see what NM prints out when you do "nmcli nm wwan on"? Dan > I was reading on google somewhere that I need a config file > in: /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ > so I put one in: > > cat /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/radio > [connection] > id=MyWwanConnection > type=gsm > > [ipv4] > method=auto > > [gsm] > number=*99# > apn=mnet.bell.ca.ioe > > > restarted NM, did the same thing, no difference. > > Any documentation for 0.9.4.0 that I can use to figure this out? Can > someone help me with setting up the radio connections? I'm having no > luck. > > Thanks > > > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Dan Williams <d...@redhat.com> > wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2016-02-26 at 10:50 -0800, Ali Nematollahi wrote: > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > How to I enable "service called NetworkManager-dispatcher or > > > nm-dispatcher"? When I search for "dispatcher" in my filesystem > > > only > > > these > > > come up: > > > /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d > > > /etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-dispatcher.conf > > > /usr/share/dbus-1/system- > > > services/org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher.service > > > /usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dispatcher.action > > > /usr/sbin/usb_modeswitch_dispatcher > > > > > > > > > Starting MM as a service makes perfect sense. > > > The question is however, how do I find out when to say "enable" > > > the > > > modem, > > > or to do a simple-connect? I was planning on using the > > > dispatchers > > > for all > > > of that, to automate all of those. So basically: > > NetworkManager will take care of that, if 'wwan' radios are > > enabled. > > See 'nmcli radio'. As long as 'nmcli radio' reports WWAN enabled, > > and > > as long as your machine has no airplane switch for WWAN (or if it > > does > > the switch enables the WWAN), NetworkManager will enable the modem > > when > > it is discovered by ModemManager and it will be available to > > connect > > with from NetworkManager. > > > > Recent versions of NetworkManager (1.0.8+) also have support for > > WWAN > > autoconnect, so I don't think you need a dispatcher script here at > > all. > > > > > > > > - MM starts > > > - modem comes up, status -> Disabled > > > - dispatcher kicks in: status -> Enabled > > > - dispatcher kicks in: simple-connect > > Dispatcher scripts only trigger on connection up/down, so you don't > > get > > any events on modem status changes. But that shouldn't matter, > > since > > NetworkManager can take care of all of the WWAN connection stuff as > > long as ModemManager is up and running (like if its run as a system > > service). > > > > Dan > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 12:36 AM, Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat.c > > > om> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 17:16 -0800, Ali Nematollahi wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hi guys > > > > > > > > > > I'm trying to experiment with NM dispatchers but I can't seem > > > > > to > > > > > get > > > > > anything done. I have a very basic script > > > > > in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/02test: > > > > > > > > > > #!/bin/sh -e > > > > > > > > > > echo "Starting ModemManager" > > > > > ModemManager --debug & > > > > > > > > > > But it is not running. I have made sure the scripts and > > > > > directories > > > > > are executable (a+x). But I cannot seem to get the scripts to > > > > > run. > > > > > > > > > > Can someone help me with this please? > > > > > NetworkManager --version > > > > > 0.9.4.0 > > > > You probably also need to enable a service called > > > > NetworkManager- > > > > dispatcher or nm-dispatcher. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Question 2: I wanted to use the dispatcher script to start > > > > > ModemManager on startup and to enable the 3G modem I have. > > > > > Can it > > > > > be > > > > > done? I have seen examples of how to start a connection when > > > > > an > > > > > interface comes up but nothing that could help me with this. > > > > It looks very wrong to start ModemManager from a dispatcher > > > > script. > > > > Those scripts are invoked often and at various times, you don't > > > > want to > > > > start ModemManager every time something happens with a > > > > networking > > > > interface. > > > > > > > > Instead, start ModemManager as a regular system service, just > > > > like > > > > NetworkManager. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thomas > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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
