Jean Tourrilhes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 02:51:14PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: >> On Saturday 14 January 2006 00:03, you wrote: >> > As an aside to this whole thing, I know we're talking about *kernel* >> > wireless >> > but it's worthless to most people without good userland support as well. >> > Anyone have any thoughts and feelings on what things look like on the >> > desktop? I think if we work closely with some desktop people, we can >> > shepard >> > in some wonderful new desktop support on top of the new netlink API.
Hi, I'm a maintainer of network tools in Mandriva and the author of our wireless application (drakroam). drakroam is basically an interface that allows to configure wireless settings in ifcfg-<interface> configuration files, and runs ifup to make the interface up. Our ifup uses ifplugd, iwconfig and wpa_supplicant, according to the settings from ifcfg files. The main problems we got in the past year is the lack of a standard and reliable signal level report, but it will probably get solved when all drivers are unified to use the same wireless stack. Another problem is that it's quite hard to know why the association fails (wrong key? no such AP? invalid settings?). And most of the time, userland has to poll for scan results or association status, netlink notifications would help. For example, it would be a lot easier for ifplugd to listen on a netlink, instead of polling for current AP and signal level every few seconds. > Note that I've used neither, so I don't know how good they are > and what features are missing. If you decide to write another apps, > please send me the link so I can add it on my web page. Please consider this page about drakroam and net_applet as well: http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/EasyWifi Thanks -- Olivier Blin - Mandriva - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
