On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:18 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Till Kamppeter >>> <till.kamppeter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I have set up a page for project ideas for the Linux Foundation's >>>> participation in the Google Summer of Code 2011: >>>> >>>> https://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/gsoc/google-summer-code-2011 >>>> >>>> Please add your ideas to the sub-page of your work group. If you have >>>> problems mail me with your project idea. >>> >>> For 802.11 you can dump your ideas here: >>> >>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/GSoC/2011/ >>> >>> Luis >> >> Seeing as a few of the mac80211-based wireless drivers (for some of >> the more dumb/basic/cheap devices) has gained access-point(AP)-mode >> support code in the kernel recently in the last few months, it would >> probably be appropriate to add (if it isn't already there) or enhance >> access-point-mode support in some of the user-land tools like >> NetworkManager, nm-applet, or wireless assistant? > > The dbus / supplicant stuff was done in GSoC 2009, see: > > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/GSoC/2009/Add_AP_Support_to_Network_Manager > > Patches were sent to Jouni and IIRC the dbus stuff was the last stuff > being figured out. So IIRC this was just a matter of userspace > catchup. If we need that then sure, Dan? > > Luis > Oh, so long ago :-). (GSoC 2009 would be over a little over a year ago). Somebody can write a user-friendly GUI wizard to do a wireless-wired bridge i.e. plus netfilter nat/masquerading config? Does hostapd has a dbus interface i.e. can it be invoked by the console owner on-the-fly? It does not seem to - would that be useful/do-able as a student project? -- 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
