Re: Is there a way to get nm-applet to prompt for network security credentials through dbus?
On Feb 25, 2010, at 5:06 PM, José Queiroz wrote: 2010/2/24 Greg Suarez gpsuarez2...@gmail.com: Sorry, I should've explained that I'm writing an application and I'm interfacing with NetworkManager through dbus. I want my application to get the list of wireless networks from NetworkManager and allow the user to select it and then tell NetworkManager to connect to the network. What I was hoping I could do was to somehow tell nm-applet, from my application, to prompt the user for security credentials. Then I can tell NetworkManager to use the new connection. Did I misunderstood you, or are you trying to replicate knetworkmanager behaviour? I'm not familiar with knetworkmanager but I'm probably replicating the functionality. ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Is there a way to get nm-applet to prompt for network security credentials through dbus?
Greg Suarez a écrit : I'm trying to get NetworkManager to connect to a wireless AP through the d-bus interface. The AP requires security credentials (i.e. WPA password), is there a way I can communicate to the nm-applet to prompt the user for the information? I am not 100% sure what you want here but any time you start GNOME's nm-connection-editor it will prompt the user to configure anything, including wireless credentials. So all I have to do is tell the nm-applet to get the credentials which will create a connection and I can tell NetworkManager to use the connection provided by the nm-applet. I think yes. If this wireless connection is the only one configured and available then you do not even need to direct NM to it; it should automatically fallback to the only one available. Or am I stuck having to write my own app? Which would do what? ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Is there a way to get nm-applet to prompt for network security credentials through dbus?
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Marc Herbert marc.herb...@gmail.comwrote: Greg Suarez a écrit : I'm trying to get NetworkManager to connect to a wireless AP through the d-bus interface. The AP requires security credentials (i.e. WPA password), is there a way I can communicate to the nm-applet to prompt the user for the information? I am not 100% sure what you want here but any time you start GNOME's nm-connection-editor it will prompt the user to configure anything, including wireless credentials. So all I have to do is tell the nm-applet to get the credentials which will create a connection and I can tell NetworkManager to use the connection provided by the nm-applet. I think yes. If this wireless connection is the only one configured and available then you do not even need to direct NM to it; it should automatically fallback to the only one available. Or am I stuck having to write my own app? Which would do what? Sorry, I should've explained that I'm writing an application and I'm interfacing with NetworkManager through dbus. I want my application to get the list of wireless networks from NetworkManager and allow the user to select it and then tell NetworkManager to connect to the network. What I was hoping I could do was to somehow tell nm-applet, from my application, to prompt the user for security credentials. Then I can tell NetworkManager to use the new connection. ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Is there a way to get nm-applet to prompt for network security credentials through dbus?
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 11:10 -0800, Greg Suarez wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Marc Herbert marc.herb...@gmail.com wrote: Greg Suarez a écrit : I'm trying to get NetworkManager to connect to a wireless AP through the d-bus interface. The AP requires security credentials (i.e. WPA password), is there a way I can communicate to the nm-applet to prompt the user for the information? I am not 100% sure what you want here but any time you start GNOME's nm-connection-editor it will prompt the user to configure anything, including wireless credentials. So all I have to do is tell the nm-applet to get the credentials which will create a connection and I can tell NetworkManager to use the connection provided by the nm-applet. I think yes. If this wireless connection is the only one configured and available then you do not even need to direct NM to it; it should automatically fallback to the only one available. Or am I stuck having to write my own app? Which would do what? Sorry, I should've explained that I'm writing an application and I'm interfacing with NetworkManager through dbus. I want my application to get the list of wireless networks from NetworkManager and allow the user to select it and then tell NetworkManager to connect to the network. What I was hoping I could do was to somehow tell nm-applet, from my application, to prompt the user for security credentials. Then I can tell NetworkManager to use the new connection. NetworkManager operates on Connections, which are a collection of all the settings required to connect to a specific network (for wifi, that's SSID, security settings, etc). That's provided to NetworkManager by one of the two settings services either nm-applet (user-specific settings) or NM itself (system-wide settings). So first you need a Connection defined for that network. Once nm-applet knows about a connection for the network, any application (not just nm-applet) can tell NM to switch networks. nm-applet will then ask for the password if one doesn't exist. I suspect that you simply don't have a connection set up for that network yet? nm-applet does that automatically the first time you click on a wifi network from its menu, otherwise sysadmins can preload connections via gconftool-2, which the applet uses as the configuration storage system. Dan ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Is there a way to get nm-applet to prompt for network security credentials through dbus?
I'm trying to get NetworkManager to connect to a wireless AP through the d-bus interface. The AP requires security credentials (i.e. WPA password), is there a way I can communicate to the nm-applet to prompt the user for the information? So all I have to do is tell the nm-applet to get the credentials which will create a connection and I can tell NetworkManager to use the connection provided by the nm-applet. Or am I stuck having to write my own app? Thanks, Greg ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
