Examples:
nmcli device show - shows details for all available devices
nmcli device show eth0 - shows details for eth0
nmcli device show em1.25 - shows details for em1.25 VLAN device
This requests NetworkManager to perform scanning for Wi-Fi networks.
NetworkManager scans periodically, but this command can be used by impatient
users who don't want to wait for the next scan.
Direct D-Bus API call example:
gdbus call --system -d org.freedesktop.NetworkManager \
-o /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/2 \
-m org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Device.Wireless.RequestScan {}
Shorter forms work as previously. Thus, all of these commands are valid:
nmcli device, nmcli devic, nmcli devi, nmcli dev, nmcli de, nmcli d
nmcli connection, nmcli connectio, ..., nmcli conn, nmcli con, ..., nmcli c
A new value for NM80211Mode is introduced (NM_802_11_MODE_AP) and the
new mode is passed to wpa_supplicant analogous to adhoc-mode.
The places which need to know the interface mode have been extended to
handle the new mode.
If the configuration does not contain a fixed frequency, a channel is
selected the same way as with adhoc-mode before.
We need to use a workaround for VPN connection state. There is a bug somewhere
causing that vpn-state-changed signal is not issued on active VPN connection.
Debugging showed that D-Bus PropertiesChanged and VpnStateChanged signals are
not processed properly. That's why libnm-glib's VPN connection object is not
updated. The issue may lie in libnm-glib or even in dbus-glib.
I wasn't able to get VpnStateChanged signal via dbus-glib
(dbus_g_proxy_add_signal() and dbus_g_proxy_connect_signal()), however received
the signal successfully using GDBus.
Until the issue is analyzed and fixed, we need to ask for VPN state of active
VPN connection every second in order to show progress and exit correctly.
This is similar to clicking a Wi-Fi network's SSID in a GUI applet.
The command does this:
- creates new connection (fills the user data specified via options, the
connection is then completed with default parameters by NM)
- and then activates the connection on a Wi-Fi device.
WPA-Enterprise is not supported as it requires a plethora of parameters and
they can't be obtained automatically.
Also, the created connection uses 'auto' IP method, which means that if the
Wi-Fi network doesn't support DHCP, the connection will albeit be created,
however the activation will fail (IP configuration won't be available).
"InfiniBand" has a capital "B". Fix that everywhere it's being used as
a human-readable string.
In particular, the RH initscripts recognize "TYPE=infiniband" and
"TYPE=InfiniBand", but not "TYPE=Infiniband", which is what we were
writing before.
nm_access_point_get_hw_address() is deprecated in 0.9.
Also change 'hwaddr' parameter for 'nmcli dev wifi list' to 'bssid'. 'hwaddr'
still works but is deprecated and not documented any more.
These days more and more devices are showing up that support a
number of different access technology families in the same hardware,
like Qualcomm Gobi (CDMA and GSM), Pantech UM190 (CDMA and GSM),
Pantech UML290 (CDMA and LTE), LG VL600 (CDMA and LTE), Sierra
320U (GSM and LTE), etc. The previous scheme of having device
classes based on access technology family simply cannot handle
this hardware and attempting to add LTE to both the CDMA and GSM
device classes would result in a bunch of code duplication that
we don't want. There's a better way...
Instead, combine both CDMA and GSM device classes into a generic
"Modem" device class that provides capabilities indicating what
access technology families a modem supports, and what families
it supports immediately without a firmware reload. (Gobi devices
for example require a firmware reload before they can switch
between GSM and CDMA). This provides the necessary flexibility
to the client and allows us to keep the API stable when the
same consolidation change is made in ModemManager.
The current code doesn't yet allow multi-mode operation internally,
but the API is now what we want it to be and won't need to be
changed.
Clients need to do their own logging using glib or whatever; these
macros while somewhat helpful were not flexible and are not a
substitute for actual logging in the client. g_warning, g_message,
and g_error are more suitable anyway.
Will be used for things like activating a VPN connection before
signaling that the device is activated, or maybe for bridges and
bonds, to ensure that applications don't think the system has
connectivity before everything is set up.
