Connection Manager ****************** Copyright (C) 2007-2012 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Functionality and features ========================== The following features are built-in into Connection Manager: - Generic plugin infrastructure - Device and network abstraction (with basic storage support) - IPv4, IPv4-LL (link-local) and DHCP - IPv6, DHCPv6 and 6to4 tunnels - Advanced routing and DNS configuration - Built-in DNS proxy and intelligent caching - Built-in WISPr hotspot logins and portal detection - Time and timezone configuration (manual and automatic with NTP) - Proxy handling (manual and automatic with WPAD) - Tethering support (USB, Bluetooth and WiFi AP mode) - Detailed statistics handling (home and roaming) Various plugins can be enabled for networking support: - Ethernet plugin - WiFi plugin with WEP40/WEP128 and WPA/WPA2 (personal and enterprise) - Bluetooth plugin (using BlueZ) - 2G/3G/4G plugin (using oFono) Also plugins with additional features are available: - Loopback interface setup - PACrunner proxy handling - PolicyKit authorization support Compilation and installation ============================ In order to compile Connection Manager you need following software packages: - GCC compiler - GLib library - D-Bus library - GnuTLS library - IP-Tables library - PolicyKit (optional) To configure run: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var Configure automatically searches for all required components and packages. To compile and install run: make && make install Configuration and options ========================= For a working system, certain configuration options need to be enabled: --disable-ethernet Disable support for Ethernet network cards By default Ethernet technology support is built-in and enabled. This option can be used to build a small daemon for a specific system if Ethernet support is not required. --disable-wifi Disable support for WiFi devices By default WiFi technology support is built-in and enabled. This option can be used to build a small daemon for a specific system if WiFi support is not required. It is safe to build a daemon with WiFi support and no running wpa_supplicant. The start of wpa_supplicant is automatically detected and only a runtime dependency. It is not needed to build ConnMan. --disable-bluetooth Disable support for Bluetooth devices By default Bluetooth technology support is built-in and enabled. This option can be used to build a small daemon for a specific system if Bluetooth support is not required. It is safe to build a daemon with Bluetooth support and no running bluetoothd. The start of bluetoothd is automatically detected and only a runtime depedency. It is not needed to build ConnMan. --disable-ofono Disable support for cellular 2G/3G/4G devices By default oFono technology support is built-in and enabled. This option can be used to build a small daemon for a specific system where oFono is not used. It is safe to build a daemon with oFono support and no running ofonod. That start of ofonod is automatically detected and only a runtime dependecy. It is not needed to build ConnMan. --disable-pacrunner Disable support for PACrunner proxy handling By default PACrunner support is built-in and enabled. This option can be used to build a small daemon for a specific system where PACrunner is not used. It is safe to build a daemon with PACrunner support and no pacrunner daemon. It will detect and start a PACrunner process if needed at runtime. The presence is not needed to build ConnMan. --disable-loopback Disable setup of loopback device For distributions with a really minimal init system and no networking scripts this can take care of setting up the loopback device and enabling it. It is safe to leave this selected even if networking scripts are in place. It detects an already configured loopback device and leaves it as it is. --enable-polkit Enable support for PolicyKit authorization This allows to check every D-Bus access against a security policy and so restrict access to certain functionality. --enable-nmcompat Enable support for NetworkManager compatibility interfaces This allows to expose a minimal set of NetworkManager interfaces. It is useful for systems with applications written to use NetworkManager to detect online/offline status and have not yet been converted to use ConnMan. wpa_supplicant configuration ============================ In order to get wpa_supplicant and Connection Manager working properly together you should edit wpa_supplicant .config file and set: CONFIG_WPS=y CONFIG_AP=y CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE_DBUS_NEW=y and, add: CONFIG_BGSCAN_SIMPLE=y This last option will enable the support of background scanning while being connected, which is necessary when roaming on wifi. It is recommended to use wpa_supplicant 0.8.x or 1.x or later. VPN === In order to compile pptp and l2tp VPN plugins, you need ppp development package. To run l2tp you will need - xl2tpd, http://www.xelerance.com/services/software/xl2tpd To run pptp you will need - pptp client, http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net Both l2tp and pptp also need pppd. OpenVPN ======= Up to version 2.2 of OpenVPN, pushing additional routes from the server will not always work. Some of the symptons are that additional routes will not be set by ConnMan if the uplink is a cellular network. While the same setup works well for a WiFi or ethernet uplink.