Wireless API

[Adrian Chadd]

The wireless API used to be the same as what's in Linux. So, in theory, we
could just use anything that used Linux wireless extensions. Save, of
course, the API drift.

So, you could just write a full wireless manager that used the ioctl API
for the basic manipulation of the VAP (eg link status, current association
state, etc) and the wpa_supplicant socket API for talking to the supplicant
for the scan list, telling it which SSID to try associating to, etc.


-adrian



On 15 October 2013 09:39, Sam Fourman Jr. <sfourman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Oct 15, 2013 12:26 PM, "Kris Moore" <kris at pcbsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/15/2013 11:15, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > > Well, up until now the interactions have all been via the ioctl API or
> the
> > > ifconfig command. Both are cumbersome.
> > >
> > > There's a decent amount of library code in ifconfig for wifi and
> regulatory
> > > related stuff. It could be broken out into a public library..
> > >
> > > -adrian
> > >
> >
> > Yea, our PC-BSD network utils are using a mixture of C ioctl and
> > "ifconfig" parsing, +1 for a public library API at some point ;)
>
> This really is somthing that should be brought to the FreeBSD foundations
> attetion.
> As an example the network manager in Gnome hasn't been ported for years,
> and I belive the largest part of the reason is lack of an API.
>
> The importance of this really can't be underestimated.
> Is there a formal way, to propose a project to the FreeBSD foundation?
>
> Sam Fourman Jr.
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