Messages in this thread | | | From | "Luis R. Rodriguez" <> | Date | Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:01:17 -0800 | Subject | Re: Linux wireless GSoC 2010 project ideas |
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On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> 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.
Luis
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