connman issues on latest Debian 8.4 release?

[Mike Erdahl]

Accidentally posted this on the beaglebone google group... annoying.

connman works just fine for my three different RTL81xx based USB WIFI adapters on the Debian Jessie 8.3 bb.org release, but wifi seems dead on the Debian Jessie 8.4 bb.org release (wifi scan either hangs, or does not find anything).  Same behavior on BeagleBone Black and Green, powered with external bricks.

I run on both 8.3 and 8.4:

$ sudo su

# connmanctl

connmanctl> enable wifi

connmanctl> scan wifi

connmanctl> services

At this point, I either see my AP (Jessie 8.3), or nothing (Jessie 8.4)

Checking 'technologies' on both releases does show WiFi is present, and powered.

Is there any config magic required before using connman with Debian 8.4 bb.org release?  Unfortunately I overwrote my SD card before capturing the kernel log, but it seemed like the rtl firmware was loading fine, with no errors being reported.

Regards,

Mike

[Robert Nelson]

Hi Mike

We have tether'ing enabled out of the box, so you need to disable that:

$ sudo su

# connmanctl

connmanctl> tether wifi off

connmanctl> enable wifi

connmanctl> scan wifi

connmanctl> services

then it'll work just fine. ;)

Regards,

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Robert Nelson
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[Mike Erdahl]

Hi Robert,

Thanks a bunch!

I appreciate your quick response- sorry if this was posted somewhere already.  I did not know tethering would cause this, and probably never would have tried disabling it :)

Regards,

Mike

[John Syne]

Hi Robert,

I would think that the need for tethering would be the exception so I’m not sure why you would set this on by default.

Regards,

John

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