Nelink Testing

[sairuk]

We recently added the standalone Netlink Tunneler from eaudunord. Neither Dan nor myself have hardware to test this so there are a number of questions around if the service is actually functional.

The prices of Netlink carts are insanse, so the changes of us "picking one up to test" are low.

We need community support to help with the implementation. From a RetroNAS perspective the service installs, starts and successfully inits a usb modem when attached. The remainder of the program may not even run as it is based on a python2 era program and we are running it against python 3. If it is found to be faulty running against python3 we can fork it and tweak it then submit the changes upstream.

It does not appear this application is restricted to arm (unlike dreampi) so please mention the platform you have run this on when posting.

See:

• https://github.com/danmons/retronas/wiki/Netlink
• Netlink Support retronas#276
• https://github.com/eaudunord/Netlink

[sairuk]

i'd forgotten about the 2to3 python linterydodad so I can probably be more proactive on the python3 compatibility than "just seeing if it runs" . taking a look into that shortly because it'll help with other stuff we want to do for other services.

[sairuk]

The changes 2to3 suggested were hot garbage, things like double braced print(()) statements and and eval() wrapped input() functions all of which should be inconsequential to operation because that is rubbish.

As a result I now expect this to run fine on python3

it does however serve as a useful tool to quickly identify possible incompatibilities