decision for an access point

decision for an access point

[Sabrina Schulte]

Hi,

I do not know if this is the right mailing list to ask. I am tying to 
modify the association process in a carl9170 driver. I am looking for 
the place, where the decision for a certain access point is done. Does 
anyone know, where this decision or the sorting of a list of access 
points is done?

Regards,
Sabrina Schulte

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Re: decision for an access point

[Christian Lamparter]

On Thursday 20 September 2012 13:53:59 Sabrina Schulte wrote:
> I do not know if this is the right mailing list to ask. I am tying to 
> modify the association process in a carl9170 driver. I am looking for 
> the place, where the decision for a certain access point is done. Does 
> anyone know, where this decision or the sorting of a list of access 
> points is done?
The decision is made by userspace (the driver is not involved).
In almost all cases this will be done by some sort of 
"wpa_supplicant" (either directly, or through networkmanager, wicd, ...).

In wpa_supplicant itself, the network is usually picked from a 
priority list (see function "wpa_supplicant_pick_network" in
wpa_supplicant/events.c)

Regards,
	Chr

communication between driver and wpa_supplicant

[Sabrina Schulte]

Hi,

I do not know if this is the right mailing list for this question, but I 
am looking for a way to handle the communication between the driver and 
the wpa_supplicant. Is there an interface that I could use to handle 
this communication, e.g. calling a function from the kernel in the 
userspace?

I am very thankful for every hint.

Regards,
Sabrina

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Re: communication between driver and wpa_supplicant

[Mohammed Shafi]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Sabrina Schulte
<sabrina.schulte@rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I do not know if this is the right mailing list for this question, but I am
> looking for a way to handle the communication between the driver and the
> wpa_supplicant. Is there an interface that I could use to handle this
> communication, e.g. calling a function from the kernel in the userspace?

ex: nl80211 helps us to do it.
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation
To the very curious user :)

>
> I am very thankful for every hint.
>
> Regards,
> Sabrina
>
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> sabrina.schulte@rwth-aachen.de
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thanks,
shafi