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

[From: Johannes Eickhold]

On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 15:22 +0100, Dirk Kuijsten wrote:
> 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.

If I understand you correctly you want some actions executed
automatically if you choose a connection from within the connection
manager? That has been discussed on #maemo. I think the solution is to
listen for the dbus messages that are generated upon establishment of a
WLAN connection and use them to trigger scripts that do further work
after a connection is established.

Personally I don't like this kind of solution very much, because this
had to be done by some kind of daemon listening on the dbus all the
time.

*think out loud* something like the options in
debians /etc/network/interfaces stanzas should be used. Like "post-up
[command]". But there are no config files there on the 770 for interface
configuration. Events (dbus messages) are way cooler (modern), but are
they the easiest way to go for such things?

> The problem is: is there a way to interface with the connection manager?

That is definately needed. One should be able to hook post-up scripts
for the APs connection settings that are already saved on the 770!
Everybody knows that WEP and WAP are insecure. To overcome that, many
institutions use differnt kinds of VPN connections that should be
integrated in the connection manager through script hooks.

> 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

Good question.

> 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.

My university uses cisco-vpn too and therefor I use VPNC on the 770
which works fine except that I would like to have it executed
automatically when I connect to one of my universities APs.

http://maemo.org/maemowiki/InstallVPNC

> 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.

Is the firmware integrated into that kernel module or does the module
load it onto the hardware from a different file?

Greets, Jonek.

PS: Wavemon would be nice to have. Timo: it depends on ncurses!