wps_enrollee-20071029

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 00:57 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> [steps snipped]
> 
> That looks like it would be very usable from GUI programs like network
> manager too.
> 
> > -- on success it gets a little more complicated... typically we will want to 
> > save the new configuration to a file for later use, and begin using it 
> > immediately as well, probably in preference to anything existing... but there 
> > could be exceptions...
> > 
> > Also of course note that determining the ssid to use is best done by scanning, 
> > filtering the results to find those that are "wps ready", and getting user OK 
> > to proceed... presumeably this would use wpa_ctrl ...
> 
> As you said, I also think that most of the code to do WPS should be in
> wpa_supplicant. I guess for testing there should also be a simple
> command-line wpa_cli-like program that does the UI steps of wps and
> simply outputs a configuration file to stdout or so. This could be used
> in scripts etc., it would probably take the SSID, pin and other
> configuration on the command line. Afterwards, the user would have to
> take this configuration file and feed it back to wpa_supplicant.
> 
> On the other hand, when using network manager, the WPS command line tool
> wouldn't be used but NM would instruct wpa_supplicant directly to do
> WPS. That way, NM could offer a simple UI for doing WPS. Instead of
> writing a config file it would store the settings and change the running
> wpa_supplicant to use them if desired.

Right.

> Right now there is probably no way to determine whether an AP is "WPS
> ready" without changing the kernel API... But with nl80211 I'll probably
> just embed the information elements in the scan result so userspace can
> parse from it whatever it needs.

Ideally, wpa_supplicant can find out whether the AP supports WPS from
the IEs and advertise that in the scan results it provides over the
control interfaces.

Dan