On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 14:14 +0200, Christian Güdel wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 08:09 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > > If you want to reset the currently active connection, you'll need to > > query NM to find out what that connection is first. But first, why? > > What are you trying to do? If you're trying to work around a problem, > > maybe a few more details could help us fix it in the code. > > Our network at school needs 802.11x authentication (as stated in an > earlier post to this list). Now that NM doesn't support 802.11x on wired > networks, I want to work around this: > > A dispatcher script looks for a 172.41.xx.xx ip address (which is one of > the not authenticated pool). If it finds that ip, it starts > wpa_supplicant on the wired interface. Now it restarts the connection > via dbus, and I get a 172.40.xx.xx ip (which is authenticated). > > I don't think you can fix this in the code so easy...
Yeah, not in 0.6x at least. The wpa_supplicant controller is being refactored in HEAD to support wired but that is unlikely to get backported. dan > // Christian > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list