Overview
Igelle Connector is a network management tool for Linux-like operating systems, capable of connecting to different kinds of networks and managing the created connections. It is written in Python, and utilizes existing networking tools for various tasks (Bluez, wpa-supplicant, dhcp, etc.). It can be used on the command line, or via a GTK-based GUI.
Igelle Connector is part of the Igelle project.
Latest version
The latest version of Igelle Connector is v0.4.0, released on April 23, 2009. Feature highlights of this version below:
- Command line interface
- GTK+ -based graphical user interface
- Wired ethernet connections
- Wireless LAN
- Fixed and automatic IP address (DHCP) support
- GSM/3G Wireless data connections
- Bluetooth wireless modem support
- Network interface detection and wireless access point scanning
- Connection logging and monitoring
Requirements
- Linux (or Linux-like) operating system
- wpa_supplicant
- pppd
- dhclient
- python
- pygtk
- dbus
- Hal (recommended)
- wireless-tools (iwlist must be runnable for the current user for the wireless network scanning to function properly)
Download
Downloads are available at the project page.
Installation
Igelle Connector does not have to be specifically installed to run it. You can just extract the tarball to any directory, then run Igelle Connector from there:
tar jxvf igelle-connector-0.4.0.tar.bz2 ./igelle-connector-0.4.0/bin/igelle-connector-gtk
It is recommended that a system-wide installation be made through an appropriate package file (although one can run "sudo mls install" in the source directory to install system-wide, but this would bypass any package manager, and is therefore discouraged). If you do not wish to (or cannot) use the pre-built deb, it is easy to make your own:
mls --url=http://dl.ossproject.org/igelle-connector/igelle-connector-0.4.0.tar.bz2 rebuild
(This requires Melas)
Development
Please see the following development/community resources:
- Igelle Connector project page
- Igelle Connector discussion forum in the Igelle community forums
- Subversion repository
Contact
Please send any direct correspondence via email to mk at igelle dot org. For any discussions and/or support requests, please course it through the forum.