That was very helpful / super informative, thanks!

On Wednesday, January 4, 2017 at 9:21:42 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 8:08 PM, neutrinos4all <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > Ah, hmm that's interesting. Thanks for the tip. 
> > 
> > By "makes wifi easier," you mean that it makes managing wifi connections 
> > easier yeah? 
>
> Specially from the command line: 
>
> sudo connmanctl 
>
> #connmanctl> enable wifi 
> #connmanctl> scan wifi 
> #connmanctl> services 
> #connmanctl> agent on 
> #connmanctl> connect wifi_*_managed_psk 
> #connmanctl> quit 
>
> (no playing with wpa_passphase, etc...) 
>
> > Also, since one of connman's advertised strengths is its light resource 
> use, 
> > just wondering: is it a substantial savings over something like network 
> > manager? 
>
> Well, if nmcli was cut out of the debian network-manager, then connman 
> vs nmcli would be a wash.. 
>
> But since network-manager (in debian) brings in a lot of gtk3 
> dependices, it's not worth it unless you want a gtk3 based desktop. 
>
> Since we went for qt (qt's always had a eglfs layer so sgx graphics 
> could be used), there's a small gui for connman (CMST) 
>
> https://github.com/andrew-bibb/cmst/wiki/Screenshots 
>
> Regards, 
>
> -- 
> Robert Nelson 
> https://rcn-ee.com/ 
>

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