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Author: Martinx - ジェームズ
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To: Isaac Dunham
CC: dng@lists.dyne.org
Subject: Re: [Dng] NetworkManager alternative
Hi!

I have compiled Econnman from Enlightenment project, its is a GUI for
Connman but, I still did not tested it in deep.

It is hosted at my Ubuntu PPA: `ppa:martinx/enlightenment`.

Maybe, if we stick with Enlightenment for Devuan Desktop, it might be a
really good idea to use it, since it is integrated with this environment
(that only uses systemd as an option, can be easily disabled).

Best!
Thiago

On 26 December 2014 at 22:36, Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag@???> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 09:04:57PM +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > which alternative to NetworkManager do you suggest ?
> >
> > For mobile systems (eg. notebooks) I really like the idea of
> > automatic network setup, but NM is really a pain in the ass, so I'll
> > have to decide whether trying to fix it or pick something else.
>
> I would suggest wifiradar, if it's still maintained and you aren't
> looking for dialer/ethernet support. When I used it in the past it
> seemed to work well.
>
> Locally, I now use wpanet (https://github.com/idunham/wpanet), which
> I wrote after getting annoyed because /etc/init.d/networking is
> blocking, wicd occasionally worked poorly with my drivers (did you
> know that if you start a dhcp client at just the wrong moment during
> association of a madwifi-supported wireless card, it will cause a
> kernel panic?), busybox ifup didn't support wireless networking, and
> so on.
> While there is a basic configuration script included in that and it
> sets up my wireless properly, I would not recommend it yet unless the
> user is a geek who knows about or wants to learn about raw
> wpa_supplicant. I made it public mostly because I keep finding network
> scripts that seem to be something along the lines of:
>
> #connect to network we stored in 1234567890abcdef.conf
> wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c /var/${DAEMON_CONF}/1234567890abcdef.conf
> -B
> # wait for it to connect, then start the dhcp client
> sleep 3
> dhclient wlan0
>
> and I wanted to have a public example of how to use wpa_cli -a.
>
> (TL;DR: In my experience, every network manager does *something*
> wrong, and it always seemed to cause trouble for me. So I wrote
> my own.)
>
> HTH,
> Isaac Dunham
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