Am Samstag, 7. Mai 2011, 08:00:31 schrieb Thompson Ben:
> 06.05.2011, 22:46, "Neil Jerram" <[email protected]>:
> > Sometimes we forget to celebrate good news....  so I just wanted to say
> > that, for the last few weeks, Iliwi appears to be completely reliable
> > now for me.  It always connects, even first time after a reboot.  Kudos
> > to the developers!
> > 
> > Does anyone else (using up to date SHR-U) still see any problems with
> > Wifi/Iliwi?  It would be nice if we could say that this feature is
> > completely done (and maybe clear out any old items in trac that pertain
> > to Wifi/Iliwi).
> 
> HI Neil
> 
> As I understand it, Iliwi does not work properly on the N900, due to the
> fact that the iwlist program called during the scanning process produces
> output in a slightly different format. This may be caused by differences
> in the wifi drivers on the two phones.

yeah, only for WPA2 encrypted networks though. I think WEP and unecrypted 
should work fine on n900 too. And that should be easily fixable.

> 
> The solution is probably to port Iliwi to use the D-Bus API of
> wpa_supplicant which I think should produce the same output regardless of
> the underlying wifi drivers.

That would indeed be the correct 'fix' :-)

> 
> Esben was working on a new version of Iliwi in which he had began to
> rewrite the code in a much more modular way, and I think he was hoping to
> port it to D-Bus as part of his roadmap. However, I haven't seen any
> updates on his github page since March so he maybe busy with other things
> at the moment.
> 
> Maybe I (or someone else) could try to port the current Iliwi to D-Bus, but
> I am also busy at the moment, and I am hoping that Esben will release his
> new version soon.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Ben

-- 
Klaus 'mrmoku' Kurzmann
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