Did something that turned out to be stupid. Removed connman from the
system to clear the way for something else.
I intended to use my laoptop using itw wired ethernet connection eventually
anyway.
I expected to be able to reinstall connman if I needed to. Even if the net
was down, I should be able to use the copy in the package cache.
But... it seems aptitude no longer finds it there. Package didn't use to
be removed from the package cache when uninstalled. But it doesn't find it.

And as for the wired internet option -- I can't even find the name of the
wired ethernet interface. And ifconfig doesn't give me one. It's aware
only of lo.
Not even wlan0, which used to be around.

Things have changed in Debian recently -- new interface names. New
commands for examining and controlling them. and I don't know what they
are.
Once uon a time I' know I need to put eth0 up. Now I cannot even find it.

I *have* installed wpa_gui. It comes up nicely when I boot the system.
But I do not know how to configure wpasupplicant.

So. I want to know some of
How to configure wpasupplicant
How to find and put eth0 up.
How to get wlan0 back. It's disappeared too.

I suppose I can get some of these packages by sneakernet, The hard part is
getting all the dependecies, too.

By the way, where are all the cached packages saved anyway?

-- hendrik

On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 3:33 PM tito via Dng <dng@???> wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 21:03:13 +0100
> tito via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 14:33:50 -0500
> > Hendrik Boom via Dng <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.
> > >
> > > -- hendrik
> >
> > hi,
> > https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkManager/iwd
> >
> > iwd - Man Page
> >
> > Internet wireless daemon
> >
> > Daemon for managing Wireless devices on Linux.
> >
> > The iNet Wireless Daemon (iwd) project aims to provide a comprehensive
> > Wi-Fi connectivity solution for Linux based devices.
> >
> > I used as network-manager backend and it worked far better than
> > wpa-supplicant, but it can be used also standalone.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Ciao,
> > Tito
>
> or simple /etc/network/interfaces
>

> # Wifi network interface
> allow-hotplug wlan0
> iface wlan0 inet dhcp
>     wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

>
> and /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
>
> ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
>

> network={
>     ssid="home-ssid-name"
>     psk="secret-password"
> }

>
> The network part is generated by:
> wpa_passphrase <ssid> [passphrase]
>

> wpa_passphrase  test provaprova
> network={
>         ssid="test"
>         #psk="provaprova"

>
> psk=125d96d97798b554315075bc7eb6e7f10632b09010b86e4e7407abc9725ba364
> }
>
> or this could all be added to /etc/network/interfaces
>

> allow-hotplug wlan0
> iface wlan0 inet dhcp
>        wpa-ssid test
>         wpa-psk
> 125d96d97798b554315075bc7eb6e7f10632b09010b86e4e7407abc9725ba364

>
> Ciao,
> Tito
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