Tim Roberts schrieb: >As a self-proclaimed studly Win32 programmer, I'm embarrassed at not >being able to find a neat solution to this. I come to you humbly, >seeking coolness. > >I have a script on my laptop that runs after login and launches the >tools that I use all the time, including the putty password agent, the >Agent newsreader, and Firefox. My wireless card takes about 15 seconds >to sync up with my access point and get an IP address, by which time my >script is done and the tools are running. That means that Firefox >always comes up complaining that it couldn't reach my home page. So, >I'd like to have my script wait for connectivity before launching the >tools. The question is, how can that be done? > >I could use os.system to poll the "ipconfig" command, but that's icky >and not at all studly. I could loop on gethostaddr for localhost until >it gets an IP, but even that's not studly, because there's no way to >know that it's really the wireless adapter's IP address. > >There must be a way for me to ask the musical question, "does the >network adapter called 'Wireless Network Adapter' have an IP address?" >Does anybody know that tune? > > > Hi Tim,
the win32api call GetIPAddrTable could be helpful. See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/iphlp/iphlp/getipaddrtable.asp. Unfortual it is currently not implemented in pywin. CTypes should be an option. Regards, Jürgen _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
