Re: feedback on attempting to build network-manager from Subversion

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 20:48 -0400, Mark Stosberg wrote:
> I tried to build NetworkManager from SVN tonight, to see if the latest
> version fixed this bug already:
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418065
> 
> >From this ChangeLog entry, it appears that might be fixed:
> 
> ##########
>  * src/nm-device-802-11-wireless.c: Fix wireless device scanning
> scheduler.	The new algorithm is to start from SCAN_INTERVAL_MIN
> (currently defined as 0)	and add a SCAN_INTERVAL_STEP (currently 20
> seconds) with each successful scan	until SCAN_INTERVAL_MAX (currently
> 120 seconds) is reached. Do not scan while	the device is down,
> activating, or activated (in case of A/B/G cards).Remove some old dead
> ifdef'ed out code that used to configure wireless devices, it's all done
> through supplicant now.
> ##############

Likely not.  The old 0.6.5 code followed approximately the same
algorithm.  I suspect driver issues; if the driver is dropping
association during a scan, then the driver needs to get fixed.  An easy
way to test this is to set up a plain wpa_supplicant association, and
then do successive 'iwlist eth0 scan' events every 5 or 7 seconds and
see if wpa_supplicant gets a disconnect event from the driver.

Dan

> However, I ran into some barriers trying to install the latest version.
> First, the website refers to CVS, when the latest code is in Subversion now:
> 
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/developers/
> 
> For me, the experience on Ubuntu when more like this instead:
> 
> sudo apt-get install subversion gnome-common checkinstall
> svn checkout http://svn.gnome.org/svn/NetworkManager/trunk NetworkManager
> 
> ( Checkinstall would have been useful for creating a package of the CVS
> version, but I didn't actually get that far ).
> 
> It seems "gnome-common" isn't all that a vanilla system needs to compile
> this. I also get these failures from the autogen script on Ubuntu Edgy:
> 
> checking for glib-gettext >= 2.2.0...
>   testing glib-gettextize...
> not found.
> ***Error***: You must have glib-gettext >= 2.2.0 installed
>   to build NetworkManager.  Download the appropriate package for
>   from your distribution or get the source tarball at
>     ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.2/glib-2.2.0.tar.gz
> 
> Checking for forbidden M4 macros...
> ***Error***: some autoconf macros required to build NetworkManager
>   were not found in your aclocal path, or some forbidden
>   macros were found.  Perhaps you need to adjust your
>   ACLOCAL_FLAGS?
> 
> 
> #############
> 
> If someone knows the extra steps missing, it would be nice to update the
> website to reflect them.
> 
> ( And of course, I'm still curious to find a solution the frequent
> disconnect/reconnect bug!)
> 
>     Mark
> 
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