[Dextrose] Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

[Ajay Garg]

Any ideas please, regarding the two latest queries :) ?

Regards,
Ajay

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Ajay Garg <ajay at activitycentral.com> wrote:

> Thanks Martin and Jon for the replies.
>
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Jon Nettleton <jon.nettleton at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Martin Abente
>> <martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Are you guys still using this?
>> >
>> http://git.sugarlabs.org/dextrose-platform/mainline/blobs/master/etc/powerd/postresume.d/disable_mesh.sh
>> >
>> > If so, you should remove it IF there is no way to guarantee that it
>> will run
>> > before NM picks up the device. At least it will avoid the crash...
>> >
>> > I would ask in the NM community if there is a better way to disable a
>> > particular device, like banning a device(?).
>>
>> Edit /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
>>
>> Add a line to the [main] section like
>>
>> no-auto-default=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (obviously replacing the x's with the
>> mac-address of your mesh device.)
>>
>
>
> This should be a lot cleaner solution.
> However, two queries ::
>
>
> a)
> Doing "ifconfig" on the XO-1, only shows information for "eth0" and "lo"
> (no mesh device listed).
> So, how can the mac address for the mesh device be found?
>
>
> b)
> Are mac address for XO-1s, EXACTLY same, for every XO-1 on this planet?
>
>
> Looking forward to a reply.
>
>
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Ajay
>
>
>
>>
>> This does not stop NM from managing your device, but does stop it from
>> auto-connecting the device.  You would still be able to go into NM and
>> manually enable the mesh network.   If you want NM to completely leave
>> the device alone you can go one more step.
>>
>> Also in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
>>
>> change the plugins line to
>>
>> plugins=ifcfg-rh,keyfile
>>
>> Then add a section that looks like this.
>>
>> [keyfile]
>> unmanaged-devices=mac:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (Where X's are the mac address
>> of the device you want to ignore)
>>
>>
>> Hope that helps, let me know if you have further questions.
>>
>> -Jon
>>
>
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