Network manager 0.7

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OLPC OS v8.2.x uses a hacked version of NetworkManager-0.6.

NetworkManager-0.7 is now supported by Sugar, but does not support the mesh device found in the OLPC XO-1.

Sjoerd Simons and Daniel Drake have worked to add mesh support upstream in NetworkManager so that (hopefully) we do not end up in the same situation again. Mesh support also needs to be readded to the sugar UI.

NetworkManager-0.8

The first step is to add the device support to NetworkManager's development branch so that it hangs around in future. This is currently NetworkManager-0.8.

NetworkManager-0.7

After NetworkManager-0.8 includes mesh device support, we should backport the changes to NetworkManager-0.7 as this is what is being shipped in Fedora 11.

sugar-0.86

Once NetworkManager supports the device, mesh device support needs to be re-added to Sugar. Again, the development branch should be targetted first, currently v0.86.

sugar-0.84

After getting mesh support back into upstream sugar, we should backport it to the version being shipped in Fedora 11 - sugar-0.84. It looks like sugarlabs are not accepting any feature patches, so this patch would instead be added to OLPC's fork of the sugar package.

Old stuff

Sjoerd's old testing instructions

A version of NM 0.7 with support for the OLPC mesh device is available at http://dev.laptop.org/~sjoerd/NM0.7/, this contains rpms, some needed config files and a few demo python programs. A git tree is available at http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/sjoerd/NetworkManager.git;a=summary. Note that using this version will break network configuration in sugar!

To test do the following steps:

  • Ensure you have a recent joyride (Tested with build 2173)
  • Install ppp using yum
  • Install the NetworkManager-0.7.0 and NetworkManager-glib-0.7.0 rpms
  • copy olpc-mesh.fdi to /etc/hal/fdi/information
  • copy nm-user-settings.conf to /etc/dbus-1/system.d/
  • reboot! (or restart hal and NM)

Now one can use:

  • list_aps.py to list access points in range
  • connect.py to connect to normal access points
  • connectmsh.py to connect to the mesh in various ways
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