Which networking tools for BBBW?

[Richard]

I've managed to set up my BBBW to have a static IP address and gateway for wlan0 that persist even after a reboot. There has to be a cleaner way to do this, but I found the file /var/lib/connman/wifi_[...]/settings and edited it to change the IPv4 entries.

What I haven't been able to do is set up a file with my chosen dns servers that survives rebooting. The file /etc/resolv.conf  always ends up being "generated by connection manager". I can't figure out how to stop that. My work around is to have a file with

echo "nameserver ..." > /etc/resolv.conf

echo "nameserver ..." >> /etc/resolv.conf

and run this as root soon after rebooting the BBBW.

In short, I'm quite confused by the networking options for the BBBW using

  Linux beaglebone 4.4.30-ti-r64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 4 21:23:33 UTC 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux.

Do I want to use ifconfig? iwconfig? wicd? network manager? connmanctl? something else? Can these coexist?

Answers to clear up my confusion as well as a pointer to an appropriate document to read would be welcome!

Many thanks,

Richard

[Robert Nelson]

On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Richard <rlte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've managed to set up my BBBW to have a static IP address and gateway for
> wlan0 that persist even after a reboot. There has to be a cleaner way to do
> this, but I found the file /var/lib/connman/wifi_[...]/settings and edited
> it to change the IPv4 entries.
>
> What I haven't been able to do is set up a file with my chosen dns servers
> that survives rebooting. The file /etc/resolv.conf always ends up being
> "generated by connection manager". I can't figure out how to stop that. My
> work around is to have a file with
>
> echo "nameserver ..." > /etc/resolv.conf
> echo "nameserver ..." >> /etc/resolv.conf
>
> and run this as root soon after rebooting the BBBW.
>
> In short, I'm quite confused by the networking options for the BBBW using
> Linux beaglebone 4.4.30-ti-r64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 4 21:23:33 UTC 2016 armv7l
> GNU/Linux.
> Do I want to use ifconfig? iwconfig? wicd? network manager? connmanctl?
> something else? Can these coexist?

for jessie, we've really tied everything to connman

wicd = eol
network manager = lots of gnome3 lib's installed

ifconfig/iwconfig could be used..

Regards,

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Robert Nelson
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