On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 02:33:50PM -0500, Hendrik Boom via Dng wrote:
> I'm having trouble with connman in Devuan chimaera and need a replacement.
>
> I am setting my laptop up as an authoritative stopgap DNS server while my
> regular server is dead.
> tinydns needs to use port 53.
>
> connman, in a chronic fit of exuberance, already monopolizes port 53 so
> that it can take over domain name lookups. (there's no need for it to do
> this,but it does it anyway. It just needs to set up a wifi connwction. It
> doesn't need to do domain name lookup or definition.)
>
> So -- what other tools are there to connect to wi-fi that don't need to
> mess with port 53?
> Fancy graphical interfaces are OK, so are low-level CLI ones, or even
> hand-editing kernel configuration files, if that's what it tales.
>
> I do ask that there is adequate documentation somewhere to explain how to
> try them out. I may well have to install and uninstall them without
> leaving residues that interfere with port 53. Installing and purging in
> aptitude would probably do the trick. But leaving just a list of SSID's
> and passwords would be fine.

I'm not sure about documentation, but I can think of two
programs you could use:

wpa_gui
simple-netaid-vte3

I've used both.

I'm surprised connman doesn't give you options to disable
functions you don't need.

--
Joel Roth