Get the IP address of WIFI interface

[Jun Hu]

Thanks, this code works perfectly in ubuntu 10.04.
one question though, is dbus usually implemented in other distribution of
linux?

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Anssi Saari <as at sci.fi> wrote:

> Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> writes:
>
> One possible solution in Linux is asking NetworkManager, if it's in
> use. It knows which interfaces are active and what kind they are (LAN,
> WLAN, WWAN etc.) NetworkManager communicates via dbus and even
> includes python example scripts. So here's my scriptlet based on
> NetworkManager example nm-state.py. This one prints out all active
> devices and their type and IP address. Easily modified to print only
> WLAN types.
>
> import dbus, socket, struct
>
> bus = dbus.SystemBus()
>
> proxy = bus.get_object("org.freedesktop.NetworkManager",
> "/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager")
> manager = dbus.Interface(proxy, "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager")
>
> # Get device-specific state
> devices = manager.GetDevices()
> for d in devices:
>    dev_proxy = bus.get_object("org.freedesktop.NetworkManager", d)
>    prop_iface = dbus.Interface(dev_proxy,
> "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties")
>
>    # Get the device's current state and interface name
>    state = prop_iface.Get("org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Device", "State")
>    name = prop_iface.Get("org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Device",
> "Interface")
>    ifa = "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Device"
>    type = prop_iface.Get(ifa, "DeviceType")
>    addr = prop_iface.Get(ifa, "Ip4Address")
>
>    # and print them out
>    if state == 8:   # activated
>        addr_dotted = socket.inet_ntoa(struct.pack('<L', addr))
>
>        s = "Device %s is activated and has type %s and address %s"
>        print s % (name, type, addr_dotted)
>    else:
>        print "Device %s is not activated" % name
>
>
>
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