Author: Edward Bartolo Date: To: dng, fsmithred, tilt! Subject: Re: [DNG] netman: support for wlan1, wlan2, ... and eth1, eth2,
.... and new systemd's naming scheme
Hi All,
These are more screenshots of the evolution of the frontend.
On 04/10/2015, Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???> wrote: > Hi David,
>
> The new device naming scheme will be supported. Regarding listing
> 'lo', I was told to filter it off the list of devices. At the moment I
> am concentrating on the frontend before I start to code support for
> enp**** and wl****. The reason is to have a clear view of what I
> should code in the backend.
>
> Edward
>
>
>
> On 04/10/2015, David Hare <davidahare@???> wrote:
>> Some observations, testing netman.
>>
>> I have a (devuan-based) installation running eudev. The (usb) wireless
>> device shows as wlan0 and netman works fine. As this machine is a fixed
>> tower it doesn't normally need netman gui so my autostart calls this,
>> and it works:
>>
>> xterm -title "Connecting to network..." -e "/usr/lib/netman/bin/backend
>> 10"
>>
>> I would like to do similar before user login, maybe with an initscript.
>>
>> WICD and its ******* dbus reliance is now sacked for this machine.
>>
>> I have also live-images with eudev, unfortunately they can't use netman
>> so far because:
>>
>> root@exefce:/home/user# iwconfig
>> lo no wireless extensions.
>>
>> enp5s4 no wireless extensions.
>>
>> enp2s0 no wireless extensions.
>>
>> wlp0s29f7u3 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
>> Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
>> Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
>> Encryption key:off
>> Power Management:on
>>
>> Those interfaces (except "lo") do show in netman's main window. However:
>>
>> wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
>>
>> ERROR: power_scan(): "/sbin/ifconfig wlan0 up" did not exit successfully
>> (status=255).
>>
>> I hope this can be fixed soon. I built from latest git with
>> dpkg-buildpackage, using the debian.tar.xz available with the netman deb
>> package. BTW the build-deps list don't include build-essential, which
>> was necessary although everything else was straightforward. I was a bit
>> disturbed that they were around 900MB to install.
>>
>> (minor irritation) the "gnome foot" icon!
>>
>> David
>>
>>
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