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DISCUSSION Till Kamppeter 3 participants 6 messages Feb 17, 2011 – Feb 24, 2011

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Quoted 9 lines · Luis R. Rodriguez
Quoted 7 lines · Till Kamppeter

Hi,

I have set up a page for project ideas for the Linux Foundation's participation in the Google Summer of Code 2011:

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/gsoc/google-summer-code-2011

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Please add your ideas to the sub-page of your work group. If you have problems mail me with your project idea.

For 802.11 you can dump your ideas here:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/GSoC/2011/

 Luis

Seeing as a few of the mac80211-based wireless drivers (for some of the more dumb/basic/cheap devices) has gained access-point(AP)-mode support code in the kernel recently in the last few months, it would probably be appropriate to add (if it isn't already there) or enhance access-point-mode support in some of the user-land tools like NetworkManager, nm-applet, or wireless assistant? I think hostapd doesn't care what type of drivers they are, except they need to claim to support AP mode, so I think hostapd is okay... but of course there are always the odd user-friendliness in various places that can do with a bit of more work about "setting up a network service", e.g. say, make it easier and more user-friendly to setting a bridge between wireless client and wired connectivity. This involves configuring hostapd, iptables for ip masquerading/network address translation, and possibly a few other things.

Hin-Tak

P.S. Till: please feel free to recycle past unfinished ideas and sign me up as possible mentors of relevant printer-stuff projects

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Quoted 17 lines · Hin-Tak Leung
Quoted 16 lines · Luis R. Rodriguez
Quoted 9 lines · Till Kamppeter

Hi,

I have set up a page for project ideas for the Linux Foundation's participation in the Google Summer of Code 2011:

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/gsoc/google-summer-code-2011

Please add your ideas to the sub-page of your work group. If you have problems mail me with your project idea.

For 802.11 you can dump your ideas here:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/GSoC/2011/

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 Luis

Seeing as a few of the mac80211-based wireless drivers (for some of the more dumb/basic/cheap devices) has gained access-point(AP)-mode support code in the kernel recently in the last few months, it would probably be appropriate to add (if it isn't already there) or enhance access-point-mode support in some of the user-land tools like NetworkManager, nm-applet, or wireless assistant?

The dbus / supplicant stuff was done in GSoC 2009, see:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/GSoC/2009/Add_AP_Support_to_Network_Manager

Patches were sent to Jouni and IIRC the dbus stuff was the last stuff being figured out. So IIRC this was just a matter of userspace catchup. If we need that then sure, Dan?

Luis

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Quoted 29 lines · Luis R. Rodriguez
Quoted 17 lines · Hin-Tak Leung
Quoted 16 lines · Luis R. Rodriguez
Quoted 9 lines · Till Kamppeter

Hi,

I have set up a page for project ideas for the Linux Foundation's participation in the Google Summer of Code 2011:

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/gsoc/google-summer-code-2011

Please add your ideas to the sub-page of your work group. If you have problems mail me with your project idea.

For 802.11 you can dump your ideas here:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/GSoC/2011/

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 Luis

Seeing as a few of the mac80211-based wireless drivers (for some of the more dumb/basic/cheap devices) has gained access-point(AP)-mode support code in the kernel recently in the last few months, it would probably be appropriate to add (if it isn't already there) or enhance access-point-mode support in some of the user-land tools like NetworkManager, nm-applet, or wireless assistant?

The dbus / supplicant stuff was done in GSoC 2009, see:

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http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/GSoC/2009/Add_AP_Support_to_Network_Manager

Patches were sent to Jouni and IIRC the dbus stuff was the last stuff being figured out. So IIRC this was just a matter of userspace catchup. If we need that then sure, Dan?

 Luis

Oh, so long ago :-). (GSoC 2009 would be over a little over a year ago). Somebody can write a user-friendly GUI wizard to do a wireless-wired bridge i.e. plus netfilter nat/masquerading config? Does hostapd has a dbus interface i.e. can it be invoked by the console owner on-the-fly? It does not seem to - would that be useful/do-able as a student project?

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Quoted 3 lines · Hin-Tak Leung

P.S. Till: please feel free to recycle past unfinished ideas and sign me up as possible mentors of relevant printer-stuff projects

I am already doing so. Everything which did not get taken last year I have reposted this year. Feel free to edit your entries to update or to make it more attractive.

Till