Subject: Re: Linux wireless GSoC 2010 project ideas
From: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
To: david@lang.hm
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	Witold Sowa <witold.sowa@gmail.com>,
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Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:31:53 +0200
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On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 12:17 -0800, david@lang.hm 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@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?
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