linux-kernel - Re: Linux wireless GSoC 2010 project ideas

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1002011216040.7748@asgard.lang.hm>
Date:	Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:17:41 -0800 (PST)
From:	david@...g.hm
To:	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>
cc:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Witold Sowa <witold.sowa@...il.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@...il.com>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	lsb-discuss@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Linux wireless GSoC 2010 project ideas

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@...solutions.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?

> 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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