How to get the ESSID of the current network

Mandeep Sandhu mandeepsandhu.chd at gmail.com
Tue Mar 22 03:29:03 PDT 2011


> dbus-send --system --dest=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager
> --print-reply /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/eth1
> org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.getActiveNetwork

Are you sure your WLAN interface is "eth1" ? This is usually reserved
for wired interfaces. Is there wlan<x> interface on your system?

-mandeep

>
> but get the follwing error:
>
> Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method
> "getActiveNetwork" with signature "" on interface
> "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" doesn't exist
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
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