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libnm-util's connection deserializing/copying/replacing functions have
odd semantics where sometimes they both modify a connection AND return
an error. libnm-core tried to improve things by guaranteeing that the
connection would not be modified if the new settings were invalid, but
this ended up breaking a bunch of places that needed to be able to
work with invalid connections. So re-fix the functions by reverting
back to the old semantics, but having return values that clearly
distinguish whether the connection was modified or not.
For comparison:
- nm_connection_new_from_hash() / nm_simple_connection_new_from_dbus():
- libnm-util: returns a valid connection or NULL.
- OLD libnm-core: returned a valid connection or NULL.
- NEW libnm-core: returns a valid connection or NULL.
- nm_connection_duplicate() / nm_simple_connection_new_clone():
- libnm-util: always succeeds, whether or not the connection is
valid.
- OLD libnm-core: returned a valid connection or NULL
- NEW libnm-core: always succeeds, whether or not the connection
is valid.
- nm_connection_replace_settings_from_connection():
- libnm-util: always replaces the settings, but returns FALSE if
the connection is now invalid.
- OLD libnm-core: either replaced the settings and returned TRUE
(if the settings were valid), or else left the connection
unchanged and returned FALSE (if not).
- NEW libnm-core: always replaces the settings, and has no
return value. (The modified connection is valid if and only if
the replaced-from connection was valid; just like with the
libnm-util version.)
- nm_connection_replace_settings():
- libnm-util: returns TRUE if the new settings are valid, or
FALSE if either (a) the new settings could not be deserialized
and the connection is unchanged, or (b) the new settings were
deserialized, and the connection was updated, but is now not
valid.
- OLD libnm-core: either replaced the settings and returned TRUE
(if the settings were valid), or else left the connection
unchanged and returned FALSE (if not).
- NEW libnm-core: returns TRUE if the connection was updated
(whether or not it is valid), or FALSE if the new settings
could not be deserialized and the connection is unchanged.
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****************** 2008-12-11: NetworkManager core daemon has moved to git.freedesktop.org! git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.git ****************** Networking that Just Works -------------------------- NetworkManager attempts to keep an active network connection available at all times. The point of NetworkManager is to make networking configuration and setup as painless and automatic as possible. NetworkManager is intended to replace default route, replace other routes, set IP addresses, and in general configure networking as NM sees fit (with the possibility of manual override as necessary). In effect, the goal of NetworkManager is to make networking Just Work with a minimum of user hassle, but still allow customization and a high level of manual network control. If you have special needs, we'd like to hear about them, but understand that NetworkManager is not intended for every use-case. NetworkManager will attempt to keep every network device in the system up and active, as long as the device is available for use (has a cable plugged in, the killswitch isn't turned on, etc). Network connections can be set to 'autoconnect', meaning that NetworkManager will make that connection active whenever it and the hardware is available. "Settings services" store lists of user- or administrator-defined "connections", which contain all the settings and parameters required to connect to a specific network. NetworkManager will _never_ activate a connection that is not in this list, or that the user has not directed NetworkManager to connect to. How it works: The NetworkManager daemon runs as a privileged service (since it must access and control hardware), but provides a D-Bus interface on the system bus to allow for fine-grained control of networking. NetworkManager does not store connections or settings, it is only the mechanism by which those connections are selected and activated. To store pre-defined network connections, two separate services, the "system settings service" and the "user settings service" store connection information and provide these to NetworkManager, also via D-Bus. Each settings service can determine how and where it persistently stores the connection information; for example, the GNOME applet stores its configuration in GConf, and the system settings service stores it's config in distro-specific formats, or in a distro- agnostic format, depending on user/administrator preference. A variety of other system services are used by NetworkManager to provide network functionality: wpa_supplicant for wireless connections and 802.1x wired connections, pppd for PPP and mobile broadband connections, DHCP clients for dynamic IP addressing, dnsmasq for proxy nameserver and DHCP server functionality for internet connection sharing, and avahi-autoipd for IPv4 link-local addresses. Most communication with these daemons occurs, again, via D-Bus. Why doesn't my network Just Work? Driver problems are the #1 cause of why NetworkManager sometimes fails to connect to wireless networks. Often, the driver simply doesn't behave in a consistent manner, or is just plain buggy. NetworkManager supports _only_ those drivers that are shipped with the upstream Linux kernel, because only those drivers can be easily fixed and debugged. ndiswrapper, vendor binary drivers, or other out-of-tree drivers may or may not work well with NetworkManager, precisely because they have not been vetted and improved by the open-source community, and because problems in these drivers usually cannot be fixed. Sometimes, command-line tools like 'iwconfig' will work, but NetworkManager will fail. This is again often due to buggy drivers, because these drivers simply aren't expecting the dynamic requests that NetworkManager and wpa_supplicant make. Driver bugs should be filed in the bug tracker of the distribution being run, since often distributions customize their kernel and drivers. Sometimes, it really is NetworkManager's fault. If you think that's the case, please file a bug at http://bugzilla.gnome.org and choose the NetworkManager component. Attaching the output of /var/log/messages or /var/log/daemon.log (wherever your distribution directs syslog's 'daemon' facility output) is often very helpful, and (if you can get) a working wpa_supplicant config file helps enormously.