Re: Linux wireless GSoC 2010 project ideas

From: Luis R. Rodriguez
Date: Mon Feb 01 2010 - 13:01:45 EST


On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Luis
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