[Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar] about my computer, check wlan0 before eth0

[Sascha Silbe]

Excerpts from James Cameron's message of Thu Nov 25 00:14:34 +0100 2010:

> +    for netdev in ['wlan0', 'eth0']:

I don't like that we're hardcoding interface names. E.g. on my XO-1.5,
the interface is called wlan3 (because the installation was done on a
different machine and Debian uses a permanent MAC address -> device name
mapping). I also seem to remember that not all WLAN drivers use the
wlan%d convention (or eth%d), though that might have been fixed by now.

NetworkManager exports a list of network devices. While it doesn't
provide access to the firmware version (only driver name), we can at
least use it for enumerating all wireless interfaces.

Sascha

[1] http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/spec-08.html#org.freedesktop.NetworkManager
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