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I believe wicd-gtk was no longer maintained at that time and we needed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..
Regards,
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
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.
Yeah, today for a wired connection, not using "connman" works fine.
But there was a time about 2-3 years ago.. That Debian/Ubuntu had a
really crappy ifupdown network setting, that forced you into a 2
minute wait (timeout) on bootup before the login prompt would become
available... Unless your ethernet port was connected, then login
appeared instantly..
Swapping from "auto eth0" to "allow-hotplug eth0" made zero difference
at the time. I remember supporting 2 boards with one image back
then.. The original BeagleBoard (with no default ethernet) and the xM
with a usb-ethernet adapter.. It really sucked trying to support that
configuration, as we had to have "eth0" defined in
/etc/network/interfaces so the xM would have working ethernet. Yet at
the same time hack up teh ifup scripts to remove the 2 minute timeout
so the non ethernet BeagleBoard, would still bootup quiclly to a login
prompt.
Once we swapped to connman, connman took care of those two cases pretty easily..
Regards,