From: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
To: Christopher Piggott <cpiggott@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: scanning a specific ssid
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:05:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1282302303.3662.5.camel@sortiz-mobl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimPjyiJsdgX5j+YGQC_0=9FEfeCQUFWuXgxz7Qh@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Christopher,
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 16:25 -0400, Christopher Piggott wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wrote a small C++ program using libdbus-c++ to scan for access
> points via wpa_supplicant's dbus interface. It works very well, and I
> can retrieve the list just fine.
>
> Now I want to cause it to scan for a specific SSID by issuing a probe,
> but the dbus interface fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant.Interface has
> only one scan method, and it does not seem to take arguments.
> (Looking at the source file ctrl_iface_dbus_handlers.c in function
> wpas_dbus_iface_scan() you can see why - it doesn't handle or even
> look at the arguments to the message).
>
> Is there another way to accomplish this?
I don't know which version of wpa_supplicant you're using, but the new
D-Bus API (fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1.*) has a much more extended scanning
API. You can pass SSIDs, channels, IEs and the scanning type to it.
Cheers,
Samuel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-20 11:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-19 20:25 scanning a specific ssid Christopher Piggott
2010-08-20 7:45 ` Johannes Berg
2010-08-20 11:05 ` Samuel Ortiz [this message]
2010-08-20 11:13 ` Witold Sowa
2010-08-20 11:31 ` Johannes Berg
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