From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 8 23:16:51 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C72E516A468 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2007 23:16:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from redchin@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86B9113C458 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2007 23:16:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from redchin@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so594621wxd for ; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:16:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Yaaa04yrJWFUDzJodsEzAlGWWPN3DrVniBFWdKKckeSI575T7IfbZT4lFJvYAJrdK9/l271pPS4l+WwDZ7bH8J/eSkL1v9URkbJ9Cu14hKISiyM4wQe0VlXktgon20Eo0l/OQi9wqT4G6Ehs6QfoFIlJvaY2yAOkGBaCZMlRQ3Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=tYkok7bOxQGvcWyL6Gn2ZgJfKNMHtvV/0bqj8XnLOn9O/H/7OwAj9lMD2FwQVz8n9U60aRi1xLqGY9e08D6e8nVOqfSNZu0lTV5o4Af7B+PcSUAbXkmJz+JYLa9HUPmsgrCVsSm5AmXSPftA+xZArlqD+A9grgovUISnFBxh+f4= Received: by 10.78.150.7 with SMTP id x7mr1299116hud.1183935114071; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:51:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.56.15 with HTTP; Sun, 8 Jul 2007 15:51:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1d3ed48c0707081551s3545f719w1159c2c07e7fa7e9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 15:51:54 -0700 From: "Kevin Downey" To: "Edwin Groothuis" In-Reply-To: <20070708214748.GA1390@k7.mavetju> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <000601c7c19f$2a9e80a0$6501a8c0@WIND3BIAN> <20070708214748.GA1390@k7.mavetju> Cc: Alvarez , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WiFi Radar X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 23:16:51 -0000 On 7/8/07, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > Hello Alvarez, > > On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 01:32:50PM -0700, Alvarez wrote: > > I would like to port WiFi Radar application to FreeBSD, but I need the ins > > and outs of porting Linux apps into FreeBSD. Can anyone pitch in some > > knowledge? Thank you > > Based on the description the GUI part will be relative easy (it's > just Python with GTK), but the underlying part seems to be going > to be an interesting challenge since the Linux iwcontrol and the > FreeBSD wicontrol probably don't match up with regarding arguments > and capabilities. > > If the author is willing to take back patches, you gain more out > of it since it probably will be a lot, maybe even considering him > to make a proper OS dependent interface towards the wi/iwcontrol > toolset so he can easily add support for other OSs too. > > (Sorry to be not so helpful, but you've chosen not the easiests and > the most difficults of jobs :-) > > Edwin > -- > Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org > edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/ from UPDATING on -CURRENT 20070701: The wicontrol(8) utility has been removed from the base system. wi(4) cards should be configured using ifconfig(8), see the man page for more information. so not only do iwcontrol and wicontrol not match up, wicontrol doesn't exist. -- i'll unhook my oily pink mini-kimono, you kill him in honolulu