[request] Provide connmanctl with connman [answered]

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[request] Provide connmanctl with connman [answered]

asked 2014-02-06 12:27:36 +0300

PyroDevil
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updated 2014-02-07 12:52:15 +0300

chemist
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Could you please update connman to 1.7, because connman 1.7 provides connmanctl that makes setting up custom network configurations on the terminal/ssh much easier an less error prone.

I tried for example to setup the eduroam wifi connection with creating those *.config files, but I was not successful. My WPA2-Personal network at home uses a 64 character long key, and the timeout on the interface prevented me from successfully typing the password. Creating *.config files was not successful either. And simple-agent always had difficulties connecting to the system bus.

So having an additional way to setup the network directly with connmanctl would help, until the GUI settings work correctly.

UPDATE

I checked the current version of connman, it's 1.15. So it seems they have removed connmanctl from the package...

Apparently connmanctl isn't part of the connman package in the mer repository.

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64char password? You might want to reconsider https://xkcd.com/936/

chemist ( 2014-02-06 12:34:31 +0300 )edit

Normally I don't care, because I have text files with the password, and copy&paste them, but that was not allowed in the GUI. Luckly connman supports WPS.

PyroDevil ( 2014-02-06 12:43:34 +0300 )edit

@chemist But XKCD style passwords can be even longer :-)

Nux ( 2014-02-06 12:47:18 +0300 )edit

@Nux That's what I thought too, and was a little irritated by this ;)

PyroDevil ( 2014-02-06 12:51:23 +0300 )edit

I am more about the kind of password... I stroke keys for 30char sane passwords much faster than ASF%42rfHros§ and do not crash into timeouts

chemist ( 2014-02-06 13:20:10 +0300 )edit

64char password? You might want to reconsider https://xkcd.com/936/
chemist ( 2014-02-06 12:34:31 +0300 )edit
Normally I don't care, because I have text files with the password, and copy&paste them, but that was not allowed in the GUI. Luckly connman supports WPS.
PyroDevil ( 2014-02-06 12:43:34 +0300 )edit
@chemist But XKCD style passwords can be even longer :-)
Nux ( 2014-02-06 12:47:18 +0300 )edit
@Nux That's what I thought too, and was a little irritated by this ;)
PyroDevil ( 2014-02-06 12:51:23 +0300 )edit
I am more about the kind of password... I stroke keys for 30char sane passwords much faster than ASF%42rfHros§ and do not crash into timeouts
chemist ( 2014-02-06 13:20:10 +0300 )edit

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answered 2014-02-06 17:13:12 +0300

PyroDevil
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updated 2014-02-06 18:12:10 +0300

I now simply compiled it myself on the jolla phone:

$ devel-su
$ pkcon install gcc gcc-c++ make automake autoconf libtool 
$ pkcon install glib2-devel dbus-devel iptables-devel gnutls-devel readline-devel 
$ cd /home/nemo/Downloads
$ git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/connman/connman.git connman
$ cd connman
$ git checkout 1.15
$ ./bootstrap
$ ./configure
$ make
$ cp client/connmanctl /usr/local/bin/

after this you can remove the stuff you just installed:

$ pkcon remove kernel-headers glibc-headers binutils gcc gcc-c++ make automake autoconf 
$ pkcon remove glibc-devel pcre-devel glib2-devel gnutls-devel libgcrypt-devel 
$ pkcon remove libgpg-error-devel libtasn1-devel zlib-devel ncurses-devel readline-devel
$ pkcon remove iptables-devel dbus-devel
$ cd /home/nemo
$ rm -rf Downloads/connman

(I wish rpm would support automatic removal of unneeded dependencies)

If you wish to setup a new protected network with connmanctl, you have to stop the current connectionagent and run connmanctl as agent:

$ systemctl --user stop connectionagent.service
$ connmanctl
connmanctl> agent on
connmanctl> scan wifi
connmanctl> services
connmanctl> connect wifi_xxxxx
...
connmanctl> quit
$ systemctl --user start connectionagent.service

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I strongly suggest not doing that in 1.0.3.8. There are some dependencies issues, and problems with pkg-conf.

plaristote ( 2014-02-19 19:06:01 +0300 )edit

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answered 2015-04-12 00:39:02 +0300

tigeli

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connmanctl has been packaged in connman-tools since the beginning. No need to compile it separately.

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Thanks for the info. Didn't saw it there.

For reference, you can find it in:

$ /usr/lib/conmann/tools/connmannctl

after installation of connman-tools.

PyroDevil ( 2015-04-13 11:17:58 +0300 )edit

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