Hello, I want to contribute to NetworkManger but don't know where to start, so I am looking for advise how I can start it.
wpa_supplicant supports great feature Hotspot 2.0 and contains in its distribution program - osu_client, that allow to do automatic wifi configuration provision using protocols and conventions defined in Hotspot 2.0 Specification. I want to implement support of this feature in NetworkManager. wpa_supplicant - query AP for information needed for for Hotspot 2.0, and act as executor for commands that come from osu_client. osu_client - communicate with Online Signup server (parsing response, generate payload), enrolling user certificates for EAP-TLS, downloading root certificates that will validate certificated provided by radius servers, saving wifi configuration in xml file and load it in wpa_supplicant. I have superficially studied how NetworkManager mange wpa_supplicant. If I am not wrong it does it using D-Bus. But main features that provide Hotspot 2.0 experience located in osu_client program. It is the standalone program that communicate with wpa_supplicant using control interface /run/wpa_supplicant. I think that it is a viable way to implement in NetworkManager functionality from osu_client that execute wpa_supplicant command, for example `interworking select`. But I doubt that it is a good idea to implement certificate enrolment in NetworkManager. So my questions are: What features should be implemented in NetworkManager code? If some functionality is better to keep in separate program, for example osu_client, how organise communication between NetworkManager and that program? osu_client does not support D-Bus. Both NetworkManager and osu_client can configure wifi connection, so if osu_client will be kept, how to pass wifi configuration? From it, or from NetworkManager? I which NetworkManager source files I should put new code? -- Vladimir _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list