802.11

Associating my Windows computer to a wifi AP with Python

旧城冷巷雨未停 提交于 2019-11-29 06:57:47
I'm trying to write a python script that can make my computer associate to a wireless access point, given the name as a string. For example, I might specify I want to connect to linksys , and my script would cause the computer to do that. I looked at this question, but wasn't able to understand what to do from looking at the links provided. Can somebody point me in the right direction? I decided to take Paulo's suggestion and try using Powershell/the command line. I found an article about connecting to a network via the command line. From the command line, you can do: netsh wlan connect

How nl80211 library & cfg80211 work?

别来无恙 提交于 2019-11-28 13:50:30
问题 I want to learn about how nl80211 and cfg80211 works in detail. Function flow, how nl80211 interact with network tools like wpa_supplicant , iw . Plz suggest me some useful links or books to refer. 回答1: To be able to control wireless drivers from userspace, some IPC communication processes between kernel and userspace are used. At first ioctl with vendor dependent APIs was used. In 1996, Jean Tourrilhes creates wireless extensions (WE or WEXT). The Wireless Extension (WE) is a generic API