[Commotion-dev] first test version of NetworkManager integration for GNU/Linux

[Dan Staples]

That's excellent. I'd like to try it out in our Commotion-OpenBTS live
images, since they are based on Ubuntu.

On 02/14/2013 02:21 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I got the core of my 'dispatcher script' NetworkManager integration working,
> its called 'nm-dispatcher-olsrd' for now.  It uses the very simple
> 'dispatcher' script API to launch a python script in respond to network
> changes (interface up/down), then that python script talks to NetworkManager
> over dbus to get the whole picture. It then parses any profiles that are in
> /etc/nm-dispatcher-olsrd and if a new wifi connection matches one of the
> profiles, it sets up olsrd properly.
>
> The profiles are the same format as the MethTether profile, and the
> nm-dispatcher-olsrd Ubuntu packages I created include a profile for
> commotionwireless.net/02:ca:ff:ee:ba:be/channel 5.  So if you are within range
> of another commotionwireless.net node, you should just be able to install
> nm-dispatcher-olsrd, click commotionwireless.net in the NetworkManager wifi
> browser panel applet, then have working OLSR mesh!
>
>
> To try this on Ubuntu/Mint and probably Debian, do:
>
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:guardianproject/commotion
> sudo apt-get install nm-dispatcher-olsrd
>
>
> Here are the repos:
>
> Ubuntu packages:
> https://launchpad.net/~guardianproject/+archive/commotion
>
> sources:
> https://github.com/eighthave/nm-dispatcher-olsrd
> https://github.com/eighthave/python-networkmanager
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyjavaproperties
>
> Coming soon:
> * a panel applet to represent the status of the mesh
> * hopefully more automation of profiles
>
> .hc
>
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Dan Staples

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