Re: new release of py80211 - v1.0-alpha

[Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>]

On 05/15/15 21:17, Luca Coelho wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-05-15 at 20:38 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>> Recently got triggered by Luca and with some free time to spare extended
>> the functionality in py80211. It is still mostly about retrieving
>> information although it also supports scanning now dealing with
>> notifications from the scan multicast group. It has been a fun week
>> puzzling on some hurdles. Hopefully I can keep spending more time on
>> this personal project and keep momentum.
>>
>> The project can be found on github and the release notes are here [1].
>
> This is very cool! I was trying your updates for scanning today and it
> works great! I already started converting my test modules to use it.
>
> I know the hurdles you were talking about, I had gone through a few of
> them, but I was just hacking through, with much less class. ;)
>
> I hope I'll be able to start contributing to your project in the near
> future.
>
> Big thanks for getting momentum from my quick query about the state of
> the your project. :)

Thanks, Luca

I wrote a couple of wiki pages on github about adding stuff to py80211 
package. I started this project with automated testing in mind so I can 
ultimately replace our current testing stuff, which is focused on the 
prorietary drivers using ioctl-based wl utility, with one using the 
nl80211 api.

Regards,
Arend

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