kwireless

Nik <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:08:41 +1100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.devel.kwireless,gmane.comp.kde.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Folks,

I've posted this to both the kwireless list and the kde-devel list as 
the kwireless list looks fairly dead.
My apologies if this causes anyone any inconvenience.

My question is relatively simple:

I am involved in an open-source project for a wireless broadband device 
driver. One thing I have been looking at recently is displaying wireless 
information such as signal strength and in particular, trying to get 
this information displayed in existing tools, such as KWireless. Our 
driver puts the correct information into the /proc/net/wireless file, 
but KWireless does not display the information. Looking at the source, I 
see that KWireless ignores anything in this file which is not an 802.11 
interface, presumably on the assumption that anything else is not wireless.

I can see a fairly simple change which would achieve the goals of the 
current code in KWireless, and would enable status information from 
non-802.11 devices such as ours to be displayed as well. However, I 
really would like to discuss this change with the relevant developer, as 
they may prefer achieving the same result through different means.

The change I am considering is quite simple. I am happy to code and test 
it myself, or to describe what is needed and let someone more familiar 
with the code choose the best way to implement that.

So my question is:

Q: How do I contact the developers/maintainers of KWireless to discuss 
this, and arrange for the changes to be coded and incorporated?

My thanks in advance for any and all replies.

Cheers!
Nik.