Hi Mike, On ma, 2014-07-07 at 07:41 -0400, Mike Purvis wrote: > Hi Jukka, > > > Very helpful, thanks— not sure why it didn't occur to me to look in > the source repo itself for docs. For others following along, the > config file documentation is > here: > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/network/connman/connman.git/tree/doc/config-format.txt > > > Is there a PPA or other debian source for getting the currently > recommended connman version, or is it basically down to building it > from source?
I am not using debian and anyway build connman from source. If you want to build from sources in debian, the latest scripts can be found at https://github.com/pfl/connman-deb > > > Looks like 1.21 is the version currently in sid, so that one can be > had as a sourcedeb without much trouble. Is that adequate, or is it > best to be right on the current release? If you have a choice, then I would suggest using the very latest version. We try hard to keep the released versions in good shape so it is safe to take the latest version. Cheers, Jukka > > > Thanks again, > > > Mike > > > On 7 July 2014 03:58, Jukka Rissanen <[email protected]> > wrote: > Hi Mike, > > On pe, 2014-07-04 at 13:45 -0400, Mike Purvis wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I have a platform where I'd like an ethernet port to come up > with a static > > IP, much as it does with /etc/network/interfaces containing: > > > > auto p5p1 > > iface p5p1 inet static > > address 192.168.54.1 > > netmask 255.255.255.0 > > > > This is essential so that a user can set a static IP on > their laptop, and > > then SSH into the device in order to configure the wireless, > etc. > > > > However, it doesn't seem possible to do this under connman— > without a wire > > connected to the ethernet port, no wired services are shown, > so I have no > > opportunity to do: > > > > connmanctl config <service> --ipv4 ... > > > > Is there a way to do this which I'm not seeing? > > > Yes, there is limited workaround so you can create a .config > file that > setups the ethernet port automatically when it comes up. See > doc/config-format.txt in connman sources for details. Note > that a > service becomes immutable if provisioned via .config file so > user is > only able to tweak very limited settings for the service in > this case. > > > Alternatively, can connman > > be set up to ignore my ethernet port and manage only the > wifi? > > > Yes, you can start connman with -I command line option to > ignore some > network interfaces. > > > > > I apologize for the elementary question— the best docs I've > been able to > > find are those on the Arch Linux wiki: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Connman > > > > I'm using connman v1.15, via the Ubuntu 14.04 deb package. > > > Please upgrade connman if possible, we have fixed lot of nasty > bugs > after 1.15. > > > Cheers, > Jukka > > > > _______________________________________________ connman mailing list [email protected] https://lists.connman.net/mailman/listinfo/connman
