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

[Dan Staples]

I suppose it's all dependent upon the wireless driver supporting ad-hoc.
We've had enormous difficulty getting our Asus netbooks to do ad-hoc.

Will this network manager also ethernet interfaces to join a mesh? How
about if the computer has multiple wireless interfaces, such as a USB
wireless device?

And I think at the moment we only have the commotionwireless.net profile
to work from.

On 02/18/2013 10:55 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> I'm pretty sure I figured out the Ubuntu/quantal issue: that machine has a
> binary blob wifi driver that does not handle adhoc well at all...  hopefully
> this is not a common scenario.
>
> .hc
>
> On 02/18/2013 09:48 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> 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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