[Commotion-dev] commotion mesh applet - first test package

[Ben West]

Hi Hans,

Thanks for the follow-up.  I can confirm my copy of Ubuntu Quantal (with
the MATE desktop) now launches the latest version of commotion-mesh-applet
OK.

It looks like I may not be getting the desired behavior from
NetworkManager; the entry "commotionwireless.net" simply does not appear.
I verified this instance of does have nm-dispatcher-olsrd
0.0.20130218-1~quantal.  I'm sharing a screenshot of what I see in the NM
applet drop-down menu.  Indeed, "commotionwireless.net" does appear as a
profile.

(Sorry for low-res JPG attachments. The listserv has a 40kB cap on message
body size.)

Could you share more about what you see on your end?

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Hans of Guardian <hans at guardianproject.info
> wrote:

>
> Ok, I just pushed an update to fix the non-loading, its building on
> launchpad now, so if you already have it installed, then 'apt-get update;
> apt-get upgrade" should give you the new version.
>
> Right now the Commotion menu applet is just a display of info, but today
> I'm going to hook up the control to let you initiate the mesh connection
> there.  For now, you should be able to click on 'commotionwireless.net'
> in the standard NetworkManager menu applet, and it should set up the adhoc
> and start olsrd.
>
> .hc
>
> On Feb 28, 2013, at 11:04 PM, Ben West wrote:
>
> Hi Hans,
>
> I think was just able to install commotion-mesh-applet successfully on an
> Ubuntu Quantal VMware guest, and furthermore successfully initialize a USB
> TP-Link WN821N radio connected to that guest.  This is the same radio which
> I've been able to get to work in adhoc + unecrypted VAP mode under
> Commotion-OpenWRT, using the ath9k_htc module, and I installed the
> linux-backports-modules-cw-3.6-quantal-generic package to get the most
> current wireless drivers.
>
> However, I'm not sure how to actually get the applet to configure the
> radio (or if I must manually configure the radio).
>
> What's next?
>
> P.S. Note I'm using the 2nd to last release of commotion-mesh-applet, due
> to the error mentioned in my previous email.
> https://launchpad.net/~guardianproject/+archive/commotion/+build/4330501
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <
> hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
>
>>
>> Wow, building a panel applet is quite a project these days because there
>> is a
>> different API for each environment: GNOME2, GNOME3, MATE, Xfce, Cinnamon,
>> KDE,
>> OpenBox, etc.
>>
>> I have this applet working well on my MATE laptop, but not yet working on
>> GNOME3.  It should work on GNOME2 (i.e. Debian squeeze), and my guess is
>> Xfce
>> will not be much work.  I don't know about Cinnamon, KDE, OpenBox,
>> whatever
>> else...  patches welcome!
>>
>> Here is the code:
>> https://github.com/eighthave/commotion-mesh-applet
>>
>> And here are the Ubuntu packages:
>> https://launchpad.net/~guardianproject/+archive/commotion/+packages
>>
>> Or:
>> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:guardianproject/commotion
>>   (fingerprint: F50E ADDD 2234 F563)
>> sudo apt-get install commotion-mesh-applet
>>
>> .hc
>>
>>
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>
>
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> Ben West
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> 314-246-9434
>  <nm-dispatcher-olsrd.log><Screenshot.png>
>
>
>


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