On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 21:12 +0100, Robert Piasek wrote: > Hi Dan, > > > Thank you very much for the instructions and your help. I've tried to do it > myself using keyfile plugin specification, but I stacked on SSID. I couldn't > figure out how to specify that. I've spend few hours trying before I gave up > and posted to the mailing list. It would be good to stick it somewhere. (like > > http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManagerConfigurationSpecification or > http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/)
Ah :) SSIDs can contain embedded NULLs since they are just a 32-byte array, so the format used in GConf and the keyfiles is the decimal representation of each byte of the SSID. ssid=102;111;111;98;97;114; <---- "foobar" Dan > > Cheres, > Rob > > > On Sunday 27 July 2008 19:45:58 Dan Williams wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 20:04 +0100, Robert Piasek wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Could anyone be kind enough to send me an example of keyfile plugin file > > > for wireless config? > > > > [802-11-wireless-security] > > key-mgmt=none > > wep-tx-keyidx=0 > > auth-alg=open > > wep-key0=33b7af2400ba80f060f144e195 > > > > [connection] > > id=Wireless connection 1 > > type=802-11-wireless > > autoconnect=true > > timestamp=0 > > > > [802-11-wireless] > > ssid=102;111;111;98;97;114; > > mode=infrastructure > > channel=0 > > rate=0 > > tx-power=0 > > mtu=0 > > security=802-11-wireless-security > > > > [ipv4] > > method=manual > > addresses1=192.168.1.2;24;192.168.1.1; > > routes1=192.168.1.2;24;192.168.1.1; > > ignore-dhcp-dns=false > > > > How I got this: > > > > 1) stop NetworkManager > > 2) killall -TERM nm-system-settings > > 3) /usr/sbin/nm-system-settings --debug --plugins=keyfile > > 4) /usr/bin/nm-connection-editor > > 5) Make a new wireless connection, fill everything out, then hit OK > > 6) re-open the connection and check the "System connection" checkbox, > > then hit OK again > > > > Steps 5 & 6 may not need to be separate, that's just how I did them > > because I hit OK too fast in step 5 then remembered why I was there :) > > > > The routes1 field is also bogus here and shouldn't be filled in, but > > apparently we're screwing something up in the connection editor. > > > > Dan > > > > > On Saturday 19 July 2008 01:52:42 Robert Piasek wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I would like to use system wide configuration for NM, but there is no > > > > native plugin for my distribution. That leaves me with keyfile plugin. > > > > I've tried to use it, but so far without any luck. > > > > First I tried to find a decent example of configuration file, but I > > > > could only find a specification page without any examples. My tries to > > > > create a config file based on on that specification failed. > > > > > > > > Than I tried to save my current config by selecting system settings > > > > checkbox. But every time I click OK, it always comes up with the error > > > > message "Adding connection failed: Launch helper exited with unknown > > > > return code 1." (not very useful error message :p). > > > > > > BTW this error message is generated when you try to save your connection > > > as system-settings, and /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf does > > > not exists. > > > > > > > Since system wide > > > > settings are using policykit, so I'm _guessing_ it might be related. > > > > I've added section below to my policykit.conf, but it didn't change > > > > anything. > > > > > > > > > > > > my PolicyKit.conf contains: > > > > > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- XML -*- --> > > > > > > > > <!DOCTYPE pkconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Configuration > > > > 1.0//EN" > > > > "http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/PolicyKit/1.0/config.dtd";> > > > > > > > > <!-- See the manual page PolicyKit.conf(5) for file format --> > > > > > > > > <config version="0.1"> > > > > <match user="my_username"> > > > > <return result="yes"/> > > > > </match> > > > > </config> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Any help appreciated. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Rob > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > NetworkManager-list mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > NetworkManager-list mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
