As it is netman works. I think, it can be packaged and made useful for
some people, but users have to be warned that automated connections
are not yet implemented.
I am realising that 'connect on request' is more attractive to my
preferences, but I will provide the magical button to automatically
select a wifi and to connect to it.
On 29/08/2015, Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???> wrote:
> I am thinking about adding yet another operation to backend.c to
> attempt automatic connection with a wifi.
>
> The algorithm can work as follows:
> a) read all filenames from /etc/network/wifi
> b) scan for wifi essids and strengths
> c) sort wifi essids according to strength, starting from the strongest
> d) iterate wifi as follows:
> i) if wifi essid is configured attempt connection
> ii) if wifi essid is not configured skip it
> e) if all wifi essids are exhausted, prompt the user or change colour
> of the GUI from default to some other colour to draw the user's
> attention without being a nuisance.
>
> Should I modify the existing functions that already work, to be able
> to use them in the above algorithm, or write a new function which does
> not use any services from the previous functions? Including all
> functionality in new function adds more code but avoids potential
> breakage of already tested functions.
>
>>
>> On 29/08/2015, Go Linux <golinux@???> wrote:
>>>
>>> Congrats on getting git to play nice! :)
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------
>>> On Fri, 8/28/15, Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???> wrote:
>>>
>>> Subject: Re: [DNG] netman GIT project
>>> To: "Steve Litt" <slitt@???>
>>> Cc: "dng" <dng@???>
>>> Date: Friday, August 28, 2015, 2:35 PM
>>>
>>> But now, it looks like I succeeded with this commit:
>>>
>>> -----------------------------------------------
>>> commit 799957ad4007aa8e272d18508e59f33903b7c44d
>>> Author: edbarx <edbarx@???>
>>> Date: Fri Aug 28 19:43:42 2015 +0100
>>>
>>> GUI frontend: now supports wireless and wired connections. Code
>>> added to protect the defaults in /etc/network/interfaces.
>>>
>>> Backend C code: add another function connect_wired() and another
>>> operation to backend code number 9. This is to connect a wired
>>> connection. Both the frontend and the backend now refuse to disconnect
>>> multiple connections. netman is now designed to handle one connection
>>> at a time. Code has been added to minimize situations where multiple
>>> instances of the backend are running.
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>
>
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Re: [DNG] netman GIT project
