On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 10:49 AM Juliusz Chroboczek <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Jason, and thanks for your kind reply.
>
> > The larger and more official for .org boards is "beagleboard",
> > http://BeagleBoard.org/discuss or [email protected].
>
> I've tried to subscribe, but it asks me for a Google account.
>
> (Snipped bunch of helpful info, will look into it.)
>
> >> The critical bit is to remove connman, which broke the WiFi on a network
> >> with a DHCPv6 server
>
> > Grrr connman. It drives us nuts all the time.
>
> Why not simply use the static /etc/network/interfaces config, perhaps with
> a script to edit it automatically?  Right now, your system has three
> different methods for configuring interfaces (/etc/network, connman, and
> the hotspot thingie), which is a lot of conceptual load for somebody new
> to Linux.
>

I think Robert would have to reply, but I'm guessing that connman provides
a GUI and lots of seemingly useful defaults while remaining relatively
small.

Can /etc/network handle it all?  How do you enable a GUI or even CUI to
edit it?


>
> >> There is a race condition between booting and loading the Bluetooth
> >> firmware.  Reloading the firmware manually works around the issue.
>
> > This has been haunting us for a while.
>
> Okay, that's good to know, I'll keep hacking at it.
>

Thanks for solving that issue for us!!!


>
> >> There appears to be a race condition that prevents udhcpd from running
> on
> >> some occasions.  Rebooting works around the issue.
>
> > I added a recent hack to lower the lease time dramatically to
> > work-around the issue.
>
> I don't think it's the same issue.  In my case, there's no udhcpd process,
> while systemd wrongly thinks that it's running.  I blame systemd, but
> then, I always do ;-)
>
> I'd be interested to hear what is the issue you're having, as I might be
> able to help (I've implemented DHCPv4 before).
>

I haven't really narrowed it down, but I think on unclean shutdowns, and
perhaps other conditions as well, the leases file doesn't get deleted and
UDHCPD thinks all (the only) lease is already checked out. It could also
have to do with the virtual MAC address changing at times. Anyway, reducing
the lease time is appearing to make the situation livable, but it isn't a
fix to the issue.

I think our lives could be a lot easier if we could figure out how to
configure dnsmasq for all of our DNS/DHCP needs (and keep connman out of
the way).

For newbs, wifi network config via a GUI is a big deal, but we are
typically headless.


>
> Thanks again,
>
> -- Juliusz
>

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