On 12/02/2010 10:36 AM, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Kalle, > >>>> using connman, I would like to connect to a hidden wifi network, but >>>> using fixed network settings (ip, gateway, ...). >>>> >>>> The only way I knkow to connect to a hidden wifi network is via the >>>> ConnectService api of the manager. However, it does not allow me to >>>> specify ip settings, like when I configure a service. How should I do ? >>>> >>>> I think I should create a service for this hidden wifi network, >>>> configure it, and then ask to connect, but how do I create such a >>>> service ? >>> >>> problem really is that you don't know anything about that service until >>> you actually found it. And ConnMan can not find it until the user tells >>> us about its SSID. >> >> Can't we pass the IP settings through ConnectService()? I think that's >> the best solution. > > we could, but this is actually pretty much complicated to handle > internally. Be my guest in trying this. > > In the long term, we need to remove ConnectService and create one > service (per security setting) for hidden networks if they are around. > Then use the agent callback to ask for the SSID. > > At that point this would become a real service with SSID assigned and > could potentially be used to set static IP etc.
Yes please! That would make my job a lot easier. Designers tend to want that "Hidden network" in the list and adding it in the client is a lot more work than filtering it out would be (if another design didn't need this). I'm not so sure they'd like the idea of a "Hidden network" per security setting though -- this is data many users don't have, they just know "network name and password". As a first iteration I'd be very happy with a "Hidden network" being always present when EnabledTechnologies includes "wifi": this is basically what I'm now implementing on client-side. - Jussi _______________________________________________ connman mailing list connman@connman.net http://lists.connman.net/listinfo/connman
