Small code which gives output similar to "iwlist eth0 scan"

[Dan Williams]

On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 14:09 +0900, Raghavendra. S wrote:
> Hi,
>  
>  One more doubt about disassociation. In my code I will enable wpa
> supplicant using 
> system("./wpa_supplicant -ieth0 -Dmarvell -c./wpa_supplicant.conf
> -B");
> So it will be a daemon. Now to disassociate I need socket fd using
> which wpa_supplicant is communicating, How to get that. If I store the
> opened socket fd in some  temp file then can I use same sock fd to
> disassociate and then kill wpa_supplicant using kill command or is
> there any better approach for the same.

Use the "ctrl_interface" parameter in the config file to tell
wpa_supplicant where to put it's global control socket.

dan


> -Raghu.
> 
> 
>  
> On 12/7/07, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote: 
>         On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 17:20 +0530, Raghavendra. S wrote:
>         > Hi Dan,
>         >
>         >  Actually in my case I want to get scan result first then
>         configure 
>         > wpa_supplicant.conf and then I will enable wpa_supplicant.
>         Because
>         > user has to first see the scanned result and after that he
>         can
>         > configure to which AP he want to associate with and security
>         models he 
>         > want to use. So I need some independent small AP scan code
>         similar to
>         > "iwlist eth0 scan".
>         
>         Again, look at driver_wext.c.  Code to scan and get results is
>         there.
>         You can print out whatever you want given the information it
>         returns. 
>         You can create a tool that incorporates that code, prints out
>         what the
>         user wants from scan result information passed back by the
>         driver, and
>         then spawn wpa_supplicant however you like.
>         
>         Dan
>         
>         > -Raghu. 
>         >
>         >
>         > On 12/7/07, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
>         >         On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 16:45 +0530, Raghavendra. S
>         wrote:
>         >         > Hi,
>         >         > 
>         >         >    Does any one know small AP scan code which
>         gives
>         >         similar/same
>         >         > output as that of "iwlist eth0 scan". I dont want
>         to use
>         >         iwlist
>         >         > because of its size. 
>         >
>         >         Look at the driver_wext.c code from wpa_supplicant
>         at
>         >         wpa_driver_wext_scan() and
>         >         wpa_driver_wext_get_scan_results().  You
>         >         don't need to screenscrape output if you can just
>         use the 
>         >         values
>         >         directly.
>         >
>         >         Dan
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         > --
>         > Regards & Thanks
>         > Raghavendra. S
>         
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards & Thanks
> Raghavendra. S