[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Wavemon or other monitoring application for WLAN

[From: Dirk Kuijsten]

Timo,

I also have been busy with this.

Anyone from Nokia would like to comment on the topics in 1 and 2?

1.

I also got the wireless tools working and started to try to create my own
application. Don't know GTK though, thus am learning it.

I wanted to make an application that can connect to a hotspot and test the
connection and/or do an automatic weblogin (my hotspot provider here in
the Netherlands doesn't support EAP). Or start scripts to test the
connection.

The problem is: is there a way to interface with the connection manager?
According to the Maemo package reference the packages osso-wlan and
osso-wlan-security (EAP deamon) are from Nokia. But my question is: will
the sources be available?
http://repository.maemo.org/unstable/1.1rc5/package_reference.html

I would also like it if the EAP daemon supported EAP-TTLS, which it
doesn't yet. My university only supports ttls or cisco-vpn.

2.

Thus I looked at the current modules loaded: cx3110x (lsmod).
They are in /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/2.6.12.3-omap1/
It seems the license for the cx3110x module is GPL version 2 (do a strings
on it). Thus Nokia should provide the source of the module.
With it we could write the osso-wlan package ourselves.

Note: I know this is a Conexant cx3110x wlan chip with a lower mac (umac),
which is probably in the wlan-firmware package. I don't need those
sources. The strings of this module also do give "Proprietary" as it
should.

3.

Other topic: I noticed the connection manager will configure an autoconf
IP address (APIPA 169.254.x.x) very fast. When connecting to access points
with a moderate signal strength the 770 sometimes doesn't get an IP
address. But it will not retry to get a good IP address via DHCP. But the
connection manager and iwconfig show the client is connected to the AP,
thus should be able to do networking.
Maybe this is just a problem with those AP's and could be solved, so I
will test this again later, because DHCP always works for my home AP. If
not, my suspicion goes to a possible timeout used with the DHCP client.


Greetings,

Dirk Kuijsten.


> Hi all,
>
> has anyone tried to port wavemon? - I simple rebuilt the debian sarge
> package in scratchbox via apt-get source -b, but if I try to start it on
> the device I get a segmentation fault.
> I havn't much experiences in this topic, but iwconfig (the
> wireless-tools package) already work on my device, so it shouldn't
> entirely impossible to get it work. Any clues?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Timo
>
>
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