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

[Ben West]

Hi All,

W/r/t to driver support for adhoc + multiple VAPs, I've been fiddling with
an Ubuntu VM guest and a TP-Link TL-WN722N USB radio.  I've been able to
get the TP-Link to broadcast the adhoc mesh + public VAP using
Commotion-OpenWRT as a VM guest, so maybe Ubuntu can be coaxed similarly.

However, considering that the known working ath9k driver for TP-Link is
from compat-wireless-2012-0907 and newer, it could also be that the driver
provided even with Ubuntu Quantal is still too old.

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Dan Staples <
danstaples at opentechinstitute.org> wrote:

> 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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> Dan Staples
>
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