Blogs » Feng Li (Intel) http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs Fri, 25 May 2012 22:49:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Consideration of Scanning Wireless AP function in new release Intel Mobile Platform SDK for Linux http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2007/10/18/consideration-of-scanning-wireless-ap-function-in-new-release-intel-mobile-platform-sdk-for-linux/ http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2007/10/18/consideration-of-scanning-wireless-ap-function-in-new-release-intel-mobile-platform-sdk-for-linux/#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:56:11 +0000 Feng Li (Intel) http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2007/10/18/consideration-of-scanning-wireless-ap-function-in-new-release-intel-mobile-platform-sdk-for-linux/ How to scan the access point on linux platform? The Wireless tool package is a useful library. Please see the link: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html

In the MPSDK, we built the Wireless tool in as a static_library and invoke the Wireless tool API in the MPSDK Providerclass_network project. In the wireless tool library, we find that there are two methods of scanning AP.

1) use the wireless scanning event .

You can refer to the source code of iwlist::scanning. It uses the functions of iw_extract_event_stream() and others to get the AP list.

2) use the iw_scan() function.It is a easy way to do the job and you can get a lot of information about the Access Point.

In the MPSDK, we plan to implement the second method, but still need to figure out the appropriate solution for license issue.

Do you have any recommendation?

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