[maemo-users] Offline mode from the command-line?

[From: gary liquid]

Excellent.
I have often thought about this functionality but never had time to follow
up :)

(just posting so I don't lose it in the noise, please accept my thanks)

gary (lcuk on #maemo)

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Matan Ziv-Av <matan at svgalib.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Tony Green wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > A couple of questions about offline mode.
> >
> > Is there a way to put my N800 into offline mode from a command-line?
> > The sort of thing I'm looking at doing is to run my nightly N800
> > backup to my server over SSH, then for the server to issue a command
> > telling it to go offline to save battery power..
>
> If you keep bluetooth off, and tell it to never look for wireless
> networks (change "search interval" to never), then you get something
> similar to offline mode.
>
> Then you can disconnect from network with
>
> dbus-send --system --dest=com.nokia.icd /com/nokia/icd_ui
> com.nokia.icd_ui.disconnect boolean:true
>
>
> And reconnect to a specific network with
>
> dbus-send --type=method_call --system --dest=com.nokia.icd /com/nokia/icd
> com.nokia.icd.connect string:$NET uint32:0
>
> where $NET is the network name (that appears in the connect dialog)
> before diablo, and network id since diablo. You can find the network id
> by a command similar to
>
> gconftool-2 -R /system/osso/connectivity/IAP | grep -B 15 home1
>
> The id is the long string of hex digits.
>
>
> --
> Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan at svgalib.org
>
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