Re: Ad-hoc information

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 11:32 +0300, Ohad Lutzky wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm interested in writing a program which interfaces with
> networkmanager in order to manipulate wireless networks. The program
> is part of an academic project, which cannot be GPLd (despite my
> wanting to), therefore I cannot use libiw directly. I would like to
> know whether or not the DBus API allows me to
> 
> - Create Ad-hoc networks (that is, set the ESSID, and set the mode to Ad-hoc)

No, because wpa_supplicant doesn't set the channel for adhoc networks
(it has no channel/freq command) and some drivers need this to happen.
But it should work with certain drivers that use a default adhoc
channel.

> - When receiving the network listing, know which networks are ad-hoc

Yes.

dan