Return-path: Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:56326 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756048Ab0BAUS0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:18:26 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:17:41 -0800 (PST) From: david@lang.hm To: Maxim Levitsky cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Johannes Berg , Witold Sowa , linux-wireless , Till Kamppeter , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lsb-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: Linux wireless GSoC 2010 project ideas In-Reply-To: <1265055284.26421.16.camel@maxim-laptop> Message-ID: References: <43e72e891001281338u5f05307ble5360c3dac6ab9a2@mail.gmail.com> <4B65F024.3080505@gmail.com> <1264972854.3597.17.camel@johannes.local> <43e72e891002011001l4e914094v33e73209a9da93e8@mail.gmail.com> <1265055284.26421.16.camel@maxim-laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 >> 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