Re: Documentation of createWirelessNetwork

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

On 9/24/07, Ohad Lutzky <lutzky gmail com> wrote:
> This is information I've found by reading the source code. It REALLY
> sucks that there's no documentation wiki for me to put this in...
>
> The parameters are as follows:
>
>    1. Wireless Device Object Path
>    2. ESSID
>    3. Security word, which has the following options:
>
>     * IW_AUTH_CIPHER_NONE; no additional parameters are required.
>     * IW_AUTH_CIPHER_WEP40, IW_AUTH_CIPHER_WEP104; additional
> parameters handled by nm_ap_security_wep_new_deserialize
>     * NM_AUTH_TYPE_WPA_PSK_AUTO, IW_AUTH_CIPHER_TKIP,
> IW_AUTH_CIPHER_CCMP; additional parameters handled by
> nm_ap_security_wpa_psk_new_deserialize
>     * NM_AUTH_TYPE_WPA_EAP; additional parameters are handled by
> nm_ap_security_wpa_eap_new_deserialize (iter)
>
> Note that the security word must be EXACTLY one of those (it is not
> AND-ed against, but compared directly)
>
> For WEP encryptions the additional parameters are:
>     4. Key (string)
>     5. Authentication algorithm, which is either
> IW_AUTH_ALG_OPEN_SYSTEM or IW_AUTH_ALG_SHARED_KEY
>
> For non-EAP WPA encryptions, the additional parameters are:
>     4. Key (string)
>     5. WPA version, which is either IW_AUTH_WPA_VERSION_WPA or
> IW_AUTH_WPA_VERSION_WPA2
>     6. Key Management, which is either IW_AUTH_KEY_MGMT_802_1X or
> IW_AUTH_KEY_MGMT_PSK
>
> I haven't documented the EAP parameters.
>
> --
> Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only
> animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and
> what they ought to be.
>  - William Hazlitt
>
> Ohad Lutzky
> ____________________________

You can get a live.gnome.org account and create a page there.  That
would seem to be the logical place for a NM wiki anyway...