Using connman with Slackware 14.1
I am trying to use Connman instead of Network Manager in Slackware 14.1. I've downloaded, compiled and installed connman 1.23 from source, but now I am uncertain how to make it start with init. Is it enough to add "su /usr/sbin/connmand" to rc.local, or should I edit the appropriate rc.<runlevel> scripts to start/stop the thing?
The documentation for Connman is a bit light and everything I've read so far has to do with starting it with systemd, not init. Anyone running this way that can provide some insight? |
willysr has provided all that's needed to make and install a connman Slackware package here.
Oh, and if you intend to use Slackware, making Slackware packages instead of manually compiling and installing the software eases maintenance by large. |
Thanks Didier, I'll give that package a try this evening.
One of the reasons that I enjoy using Slackware is that package management is minimal. I like learning and knowing what is going on under the hood. I will probably take willysr's package apart to see what it does and then do those things myself. I'll be interested to see if he had to add "-lncurses" to make it compile. |
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i added to Willy's script, to the "stop" function Code:
connmand_stop() { |
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If you're reading this in /etc/init.d/, Slackware's real init directory is |
i should read better
thx Didier |
I think i already mention it on the README
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Fixed!
Thanks Didier for the guidance and willysr for the excellent SlackkBuild package! Is it just me or do most people who use connman also use Enlightenment and eConnman? That's the only reason I wanted it. |
When I run enlightenment window manager on my Slack 14.1 x86_64 I use the slacke17 package (available from sourceforge.com), which has the connman removed. Then I add the systray module and already available in Slackware nm-applet to show in the systray. That way I don't have to struggle with building connman, which is reported as unstable by the slacke17 maintainer. Additionally, by using network manager and nm-applet there is consistency across the window managers that I alternate between. I find my Slackware is more stable and consistent if I only use slackpkg or sbopkg as my application packages and not try to build packages as a newbie.
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