Re: Linux wireless GSoC 2010 project ideas

[david]

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@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.
>
> 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
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