This is exasperating! Git is refusing my commits telling me everything
is up to date!

This is effectively locking me out of development notwithstanding that
I spent hours upon hours developing. This puts me down.

:(((


Edward

On 28/08/2015, Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???> wrote:
> Found a call to calloc() without a matching call to free() in
> core_functions.c
>
> i) eth0, wlan0 can be upped and downed from GUI
> ii) eth0 configuration cannot be edited from GUI
> iii) wifi configuration can be edited from GUI
> iv) wifi hotspot scanning works
> v) listing of configured wifis and eth0 supported
>
> TODO: (ie what I am doing now)
> i) Testing of using a root SUID for backend instead of sudo
> ii) automatic selection of strongest wifi signal but on request by
> user. That is, user presses a button to instruct netman to search
> instead of having it eating CPU cycles without being told to.
>
> After achieving these goals, the new goal will be that of
> internationalisation.
>
> Those who are 'worried' about netman/backend not recognizing
> international characters, shall be listened to. :)
>
> These are my humble ideas... Anyone who has other ideas is free to
> make them known.
>
> Edward
>
> On 27/08/2015, Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???> wrote:
>> Also successfully detected multiple simultaneously active connections
>> from Lazarus code. The next step will be to implement network
>> connection identification in C code.
>>
>> After that, I will do my next commit to git.devuan.org
>>
>>
>> Automatic searching for Wifi hotspots probably will need a separate
>> thread to simplify the code, although I am confident this can be
>> achieved from the main thread without crippling it. However, without a
>> separate thread, the code will be far more complex and difficult to
>> read.
>>
>> I am opting for a separate thread.
>>
>> Edward
>>
>> On 27/08/2015, Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???> wrote:
>>> It worked.
>>>
>>> Now, I must find a way to determine whether we can communicate with a
>>> router. Found that also.
>>>
>>> "ip a | grep wlan0"
>>> With wifi switched on and connection active: state UP
>>>
>>> With wifi turned off and connection still active: state DOWN
>>>
>>> That is what I need.
>>>
>>>
>>> Edward
>>>
>>> On 27/08/2015, Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:40:49 +0100
>>>> Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I added another function to core_functions.c. It attempts to connect
>>>>> to eth0 but for some weird reason, probably a bug not from our part,
>>>>> it is failing.
>>>>>
>>>>> The function is: int connectWired(const char ethx)
>>>>>
>>>>> And the error is: (passed command to execl is "ifup eth0")
>>>>> "This command should be called as ifup, ifdown, or ifquery"
>>>>>
>>>>> Any pointers as to what is the cause are appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> You might get lucky by sending execl the full path to ifup, perhaps
>>>> it's /sbin/ifup and execl didn't send the environment.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> SteveT
>>>>
>>>> Steve Litt
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