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

[Hans of Guardian]

Thanks for you testing and feedback!

Looks like NetworkManager is not finding any commotionwireless.net nodes in its wifi scan.  Are there any active nodes called 'commotionwireless.net' nearby?  

Creating the first node will happen via the Commotion Mesh Applet by choosing the profile there.  I'm working on hooking that up today.  As things are now, you'll need to associate with an existing mesh.

.hc

On Mar 1, 2013, at 2:56 PM, Ben West wrote:

> 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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>> <nm-dispatcher-olsrd.log><Screenshot.png>
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> Ben West
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> 314-246-9434
> <Screenshot_NM_Wireless_profiles.jpg><Screenshot_Ubuntu_NM.jpg>

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