[PLUG] Wireless Interface APIs needed

[Vasudeo Bidve]

On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 2:00 AM, Abhijit Bhopatkar <bain at devslashzero.com>
wrote:

> If your wireless device is always coming up with same name e.g. "usb0" then
> just add an entry in /etc/network/interfaces. This will prevent
> network-manger from claiming this device and you can configure it as you
> need using cli.
>
> If the name is not same all the time you will have to play with udev to get
> that done first. Google for how to make sure ethernet devices are given
> same name. mostly editing /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
>
> Also you may want to still use network-manager, you can control it using
> "nmcli" through scripts, you don't need the UI or applet running. It might
> be better since network manager takes care of lot of things for you esp in
> wireless networks.
>

Thanks Abhijit for this suggestion. Of course I haven't put a 'No' stamp on
network-manager in this project. It is just the case that the project
involves some proprietary algorithms in networking, where the
network-manager might not fit. Besides, I am also doubtful about tech
support from nm-community. I posted this 'SAME' message on network-manager
mailing list too, but got a too abstract and useless (yet theoretically
correct!!!) reply on it, which didn't solve my query. But still in my final
image, I will certainly include nmcli though and will try to make use of
its capacities wherever the situation permits.

By the way, how to mark a thread as 'SOLVED' in this mailing list?


> On 28 November 2014 at 05:58, Vasudeo Bidve <vkbidve at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am working on a networking project where only Wi-Fi interfaces are
> > used on all hosts for communication. It has to be a private network,
> > operating on IPv6 without using DHCP(v6). So obviously, the trick is
> > to assign Link-Local IPv6 addresses to all hosts using their
> > respective MAC ids and proceed.
> >
> > I did a proof-of-concept of such networking using Ethernet and PCs
> > with ubuntu (14.04 LTS). But this is not working with wireless
> > interfaces.
> >
> > I tried to do this with command line utilities like 'iw' and
> > 'iwconfig' on my PCs, but as soon as I plug in the USB-wifi adapter,
> > the network-manager in ubuntu sets it in 'managed' mode, which I don't
> > want. Further, if I try to assign another mode, I get an error message
> > as 'device is busy'. Then by taking the link down, it doesn't add any
> > modes. Using the network setting panel in ubuntu, I can configure it
> > in 'ad-hoc' mode, but I want to do it programmatically (through a C
> > code, shell script, anything) without using that network-manager
> > utility finally in my project.
> >
> > In my project, finally all PCs will be replaced by embedded linux
> > SBCs. USB wi-fi adapters will possibly be replaced by wi-fi modules.
> > But programmatically, they should be able to communicate with each
> > other at Link-Local IPv6 addresses in Ad-Hoc mode.
> >
> > At this moment, what I need is a set of wireless interface APIs, (of
> > course with some helpful documentation) to configure the wifi
> > interface in Ad-Hoc mode (possibly in AP/Station mode as and when
> > needed), get a Link-Local IPv6 address assigned to itself and start
> > networking. Any URL to such information will also do.
> >
> > If there is any step-by-step guide (or example codes) then it will be
> > even more helpful.
> >
> > Thanks and Regards
> >
> > Vasudeo K. Bidve
> >
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