My Delusional Dream

I found this article about how to
list devices using hal and dbus from Python, however, I couldn’t get it to work properly. After some hacking
I managed to get a little script working to list all the ethernet devices.

import dbus
bus = dbus.Bus(dbus.Bus.TYPE_SYSTEM)
hal_service = bus.get_service("org.freedesktop.Hal")
hal_manager = hal_service.get_object("/org/freedesktop/Hal/Manager",
"org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager")
eth_devs = hal_manager.FindDeviceByCapability ("net")
for dev_uri in eth_devs:
	dev = hal_service.get_object (dev_uri, "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device")
	iface = dev.GetPropertyString ("net.interface")
	prod = ""
try:
		prod = "(" + dev.GetPropertyString ("info.product") + ")"
except:
pass
print "%s - %s" % (iface, prod)