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From: beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] On 
Behalf Of Robert Nelson
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2020 9:31 PM
To: Beagle Board
Subject: Re: [beagleboard] When was connmanctl introduced?

>On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 10:21 PM <bryan.mil...@owasp.org> wrote:
>>
>> Can someone please point me to the history of connmanctl and when it was 
>> introduced for Debian on BBB?   All of the legacy documentation circa 2015 
>> shows a simple entry in /etc/network/interfaces but clearly connmanctl is 
>> the way to go now.
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> The original BeagleBoard.org Debian Wheezy release around 2014 used
> wicd for wifi configuration, shortly there after around 2015 we
> started transitioning to connman.
>
> I believe wicd-gtk was no longer maintained at that time and we needed to 
> find a new solution..

Thank you Robert!  That is very helpful.   For my wired NIC connections 
interfaces is dead simple.  I can see the advantage of connman for wifi.

-Bryan

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