oonn - connman-based wireless manager

taylorchu · 2012-05-23 02:49:31

connman is a light-weight connection dbus interface, and "oonn" is a wireless manager based on it.
The main benefit of connman is that it is ultra-lightweight and has great potential.

"oonn" is pronounced as "on", which means it helps you to stay "on"line.
The PKGBUILD is already in aur, and here is the repo if you dont want to compile before you test.

[march]
# most common packages in aur
# readme: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10527821/repo/x86_64/readme.txt
# packages: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10527821/repo/x86_64/pkglst.txt
Server = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10527821/repo/x86_64/

problem
1. it seems that connman's agent feature is not complete (correct me if i am wrong), so right now, there is no way to set passphrase.
2. if passphrase is ready, i am going to code some ncurses interface for it. but for now, test it with command line: oonn

some comparision (wicd, netcfg, networkmanager, connman)
1. speed of setup connection
conn >= netcfg >>>> networkmanager >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>wicd

2. wireless type support (bluetooth, cellular ethernet ...)
networkmanager > conn >>>>>> netcfg = wicd

3. passphrase setup speed
networkmanager >> wicd >>>>>>>netcfg (connman has no passphrase support for now)

4. lightweight
conn >>>netcfg = wicd >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>networkmanager

Last edited by taylorchu (2012-05-23 02:50:30)

irtigor · 2012-05-24 16:20:49

I got the following error (oonn installed from AUR)

[connman] -> online
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/oonn", line 20, in <module>
    all_services = conn.list_service()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Connman_backend.py", line 63, in list_service
    security = properties["Security"][0]
IndexError: list index out of range

taylorchu · 2012-05-25 08:56:00

it should be ok now

el mariachi · 2012-05-25 11:24:07

so this is a lighter/faster alternative to wifi-select (netcfg)?

taylorchu · 2012-05-26 00:52:20

no, wifi-select is based on netcfg. This is based on connman. But overall they are similar.

irtigor · 2012-05-26 15:27:39

I'm still getting that error message, but right now there is no wireless network available, so could it be a 'intended behavior' somehow?

litemotiv · 2012-05-26 15:40:19

taylorchu wrote:

problem
1. it seems that connman's agent feature is not complete (correct me if i am wrong), so right now, there is no way to set passphrase.
2. if passphrase is ready, i am going to code some ncurses interface for it. but for now, test it with command line: oonn

The agent-api documentation does seem to include a passphrase parameter?

http://git.kernel.org/?p=network/connma … 4b;hb=HEAD

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#1 2012-05-23 02:49:31

oonn - connman-based wireless manager

#2 2012-05-24 16:20:49

Re: oonn - connman-based wireless manager

#3 2012-05-25 08:56:00

Re: oonn - connman-based wireless manager

#4 2012-05-25 11:24:07

Re: oonn - connman-based wireless manager

#5 2012-05-26 00:52:20

Re: oonn - connman-based wireless manager

#6 2012-05-26 15:27:39

Re: oonn - connman-based wireless manager

#7 2012-05-26 15:40:19

Re: oonn - connman-based wireless manager

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