Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:17:41 -0800 (PST) | From | david@lang ... | Subject | Re: Linux wireless GSoC 2010 project ideas |
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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@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. > > 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?
> 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?
David Lang
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