Subject: Re: Initial stab at QT based wifi browser. Comments?
To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>
From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/19/2006 09:00:42
Daniel Carosone wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 08:55:31PM +0100, Rui Paulo wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> Yes, and it has a server interface for external frontend tools to
> monitor for events, configure things, prompt for passwords, etc.
> wpa_cli is one such program.
> 
> If you're implementing a gui, you should probably look at programming
> to that interface, rather than to the raw 802.11/ifconfig ioctls.

There's a Qt front end for wpa_supplicant that is included in rev 0.4.8. 
  I've not looked at it.

	Sam