Some observations, testing netman.
I have a (devuan-based) installation running eudev. The (usb) wireless
device shows as wlan0 and netman works fine. As this machine is a fixed
tower it doesn't normally need netman gui so my autostart calls this,
and it works:
xterm -title "Connecting to network..." -e "/usr/lib/netman/bin/backend 10"
I would like to do similar before user login, maybe with an initscript.
WICD and its ******* dbus reliance is now sacked for this machine.
I have also live-images with eudev, unfortunately they can't use netman
so far because:
root@exefce:/home/user# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
enp5s4 no wireless extensions.
enp2s0 no wireless extensions.
wlp0s29f7u3 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:on
Those interfaces (except "lo") do show in netman's main window. However:
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
ERROR: power_scan(): "/sbin/ifconfig wlan0 up" did not exit successfully
(status=255).
I hope this can be fixed soon. I built from latest git with
dpkg-buildpackage, using the debian.tar.xz available with the netman deb
package. BTW the build-deps list don't include build-essential, which
was necessary although everything else was straightforward. I was a bit
disturbed that they were around 900MB to install.
(minor irritation) the "gnome foot" icon!
David
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