Adding GetOperationalMode() to determine op mode of an interface

wicd/networking.py

@@ -635,6 +635,16 @@ class Wireless(Controller):
         """
         return self.wiface.GetCurrentBitrate(iwconfig)
 
+    def GetOperationalMode(self, iwconfig):
+        """ Get the current operational mode of the interface. 
+        
+        Returns:
+        The operational mode of the interface as a string, or
+        None if the operational mode can't be found.
+        
+        """
+        return self.wiface.GetOperationalMode(iwconfig)
+
     def GetIwconfig(self):
         """ Get the out of iwconfig. """
         return self.wiface.GetIwconfig()

wicd/wicd-daemon.py

@@ -1000,6 +1000,11 @@ class WirelessDaemon(dbus.service.Object):
     def GetCurrentBitrate(self, iwconfig):
         return self.wifi.GetCurrentBitrate(iwconfig)
 
+    @dbus.service.method('org.wicd.daemon.wireless')
+    def GetOperationalMode(self, iwconfig):
+        """ Returns the operational mode for the iwconfig parameter """
+        return misc.to_unicode(self.wifi.GetOperationalMode())
+
     @dbus.service.method('org.wicd.daemon.wireless')
     def CreateAdHocNetwork(self, essid, channel, ip, enctype, key, encused,
                            ics):

wicd/wnettools.py

@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ wpa2_pattern = re.compile('(WPA2)', __re_mode)
 ip_pattern = re.compile(r'inet [Aa]d?dr[^.]*:([^.]*\.[^.]*\.[^.]*\.[0-9]*)',re.S)
 bssid_pattern = re.compile('.*Access Point: (([0-9A-Z]{2}:){5}[0-9A-Z]{2})', __re_mode)
 bitrate_pattern = re.compile('.*Bit Rate=(.*?)s', __re_mode)
+opmode_pattern = re.compile('.*Mode:(.*?) ', __re_mode)
 
 # Regular expressions for wpa_cli output
 auth_pattern = re.compile('.*wpa_state=(.*?)\n', __re_mode)
@@ -1198,6 +1199,18 @@ class BaseWirelessInterface(BaseInterface):
         bitrate = misc.RunRegex(bitrate_pattern, output)
         return bitrate + 's'
 
+    def GetOperationalMode(self, iwconfig=None):
+        """ Get the MAC address for the interface. """
+        if not iwconfig:
+            cmd = 'iwconfig ' + self.iface
+            if self.verbose: print cmd
+            output = misc.Run(cmd)
+        else:
+            output = iwconfig
+            
+        opmode = misc.RunRegex(opmode_pattern, output)
+        return opmode
+
     def _get_link_quality(self, output):
         """ Parse out the link quality from iwlist scan or iwconfig output. """
         try: