Subject: Re: Initial stab at QT based wifi browser. Comments?
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/18/2006 20:55:31
Martijn van Buul <martijnb@atlas.ipv6.stack.nl> writes:

> It occurred to me that Liam J. Foy wrote in gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel:
>>
>> On 18 Apr 2006, at 15:01, ober wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> http://www.linbsd.org/qnetbased1.png and
>>> http://www.linbsd.org/qnetbased2.png are images of my initial work
>>> on making a qt based wifi browser.
>>
>> Are you using the old API or the same code as wiconfig? Also, I think
>> if you search the mailing lists there was talk of this being written
>> in curses too. I think thats a much better decision than QT :)
>
> If you want to have useful roaming support, I think you'd need to have a
> background daemon connecting to whatever network it "knows". I kind of like
> that feature from (excusez-moi le mot) Windows XP. 

wpa_supplicant can do that.

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  Rui Paulo			<rpaulo@{NetBSD{,-PT}.org,fnop.net}>