On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 12:17 -0800, david@xxxxxxx wrote: > On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > > > On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 10:01 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Johannes Berg > >> <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 22:03 +0100, Witold Sowa wrote: > >>> > >>>> Some time ago johill asked me if I would be interested in hacking on > >>>> adding WPS support to NetworkManager. Well, I would but I don't know > >>>> when I'll find some time for that. I don't know how much of work would > >>>> it require, but it possibly could be a topic of one of GSoC 2010 > >>>> projects. I have no idea know if anybody would be willing to be a mentor > >>>> for such a project. > >>> > >>> Sounds like a good project to me, but I don't think I'd be a good mentor > >>> for since I'm not familiar with the NM codebase at all. As for how much > >>> work it would require, I think the basic client-side functionality could > >>> possibly be "too simple" for you, WPS has a lot of additional > >>> functionality (e.g. WPS support for the AP side). > >> > >> In case it helps, I believe all that would be required is the dbus > >> stuff, there are sample GUI examples of this already provided through > >> the wpa_supplicant wpa_gui. > > > > Here are couple of ideas (I don't think I will enter the program > > though): > > > > 1 - Make Ad-Hoc WPA networks work (with NM). This would involve changes > > in kernel, but I don't think will involve changes in hardware drivers. > > > > 2 - Allow a wireless card to associate to several APs at once (if they > > share the frequency). > > Implement this at least for ath5/9k. Madwifi had that feature. Maybe > > ath9k has. If it has that feature, test it. > > Implement proper GUI support in NM for that. > > why would you want to do this? To create a wireless router. However, yes, I probably meant an access point and wireless client at same time. > > > 3 - Create wardriving^Wwireless analysis tool. > > No, not for wardriving. I mean an application that shows and analyzes > > nicely the signal strength of nearby APs, and other features of it > > it seems to me that kismet provides exactly this capability, what is it > missing? Didn't use this tool. Also, like I said, this should be a analysis, and not wardriving/hacking tool. And with GUI. Best regards, Maxim Levitsky -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
