Linux WiFi devices

The linuxwifi driver provides access to information about wireless Ethernet cards in Linux. It reads the wireless info found in /proc/net/wireless. Sort of ad hoc right now, as I've only tested on our own orinoco cards.

Compile-time dependencies
  • <linux/wireless.h>
Provides
  • interface_wifi
Requires
  • None
Configuration requests
  • PLAYER_WIFI_REQ_MAC
Configuration file options
  • interval (integer)
    • Default: 1000
    • Update interval; i.e., time between reading /proc/net/wireless (milliseconds)
Example
driver
(
  name "linuxwifi"
  provides ["wifi:0"]
)
Author
John Sweeney