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

[From: Samuel Ortiz]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, ext Johannes Eickhold wrote:

> > 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.
WEP is known to be really insecure, but WPA and WPA2 are much stronger.

> Is the firmware integrated into that kernel module or does the module
> load it onto the hardware from a different file?
The module loads the firmware from /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/3825.arm to
the chip. The firmware runs on the target (the CX3110x chipset) while the
UMAC runs on the host (OMAP). The UMAC is actually loaded when umac.ko is
insmoded.

> PS: Wavemon would be nice to have. Timo: it depends on ncurses!
I agree, but wavemon also needs WLAN monitor mode support and this is now
included in 51-13. I only tested it with tcpdump, and it seems to reports
the correct 802.11 frames.

Cheers,
Samuel.