[Techtalk] alternatives to Network Manager

[Alison Chaiken]

On Ubuntu, I've had better luck with Intel's connman recently that Network
Manager, particularly on embedded hardware or non-Gnome installs.    If you
install connman, either the /usr/share or /usr/lib directories has a subdir
called "tests" that contains CLI scripts that will bring the HW up and
down, config the interfaces, handle authentication simply, and provide
(yay!) useful diagnostics.   connman works both with Intel and TI WLAN
drivers as well as wireline ethernet and Bluetooth on hosts with x86 and
 ARM architecture.   (Probably works well elsewhere: I haven't tried it.)
Give it a try if you're having problems with NM.    connman should be
packaged for all the major distros.

[alison at bonnet]$ apt-cache show connman
Package: connman
Installed-Size: 699
Maintainer: Alexander Sack <asac at debian.org>
Depends: iptables, libc6 (>= 2.9), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.1.1), libglib2.0-0 (>=
2.28.0), libgnutls26 (>= 2.12.17-0), libxtables7, dbus, lsb-base
Recommends: bluez, wpasupplicant
Description-en: Intel Connection Manager daemon
The Linux Connection Manager project provides a daemon for managing
Internet connections within embedded devices running the Linux operating
system. The Connection Manager is designed to be slim and to use as few
resources as possible, so it can be easily integrated in other Moblin-based
embedded systems. It is fully modular system that  can be extended through
plug-ins, to support all kinds of wired or  wireless technologies. Also,
configuration methods like DHCP and  domain name resolving are implemented
using plug-ins. The plug-in approach allows for easy adaption and
modification for various use cases. This package contains the connman
daemon and its plugins.
Homepage: http://www.connman.net

HTH,
Alison


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