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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Ok, I've done a bunch more testing, and have it reliably working on two Linux
Mint/Maya aka Ubuntu/Precise machines.  I have been testing on a
Ubuntu/quantal machine, and its NetworkManager seems to ignore the channel and
hardcoded BSSID, so it tries repeated on channel 1 and fails.   arg...

Right now, it includes a pre-configured NetworkManager connection for
'commotionwireless.net'.  Are there any other mesh profiles that should be
included by default?

.hc

On 02/15/2013 01:18 PM, Dan Staples wrote:
> 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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