Re: git: 992a0139d1 - main - Status/2025Q3/wutil.adoc: Add report

On Tuesday, November 18th, 2025 at 11:06, Lorenzo Salvadore <[email protected]> wrote:

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> The branch main has been updated by salvadore:
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> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=992a0139d1b239f1c113a0cdadb0b164512ec15c
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> commit 992a0139d1b239f1c113a0cdadb0b164512ec15c
> Author: Lorenzo Salvadore [email protected]

Real author is Muhammad Saheed <[email protected]>, sorry
for the mistake.

Reported by: Pau Amma <[email protected]>

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> AuthorDate: 2025-11-18 10:04:04 +0000
> Commit: Lorenzo Salvadore [email protected]
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> CommitDate: 2025-11-18 10:05:40 +0000
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> Status/2025Q3/wutil.adoc: Add report
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> Reviewed by: status (Pau Amma [email protected]), obiwac
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> Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D53618
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> +=== A new Wi-Fi management utility: wutil
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> +Links: +
> +link:https://github.com/MainKt/wutil[source code] URL: link:https://github.com/MainKt/wutil[] +
> +link:https://www.freshports.org/net/wutil[port] URL: link:https://www.freshports.org/net/wutil[]
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> +Contact: Muhammad Saheed [email protected] +
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> +package:net/wutil[] is a Wi-Fi management utility that supports most man:wpa_supplicant[8] station-mode operations (scanning, connecting or disconnecting from wireless networks, and managing known networks, etc.), accessible with much nicer interfaces.
> +It also automatically manages and updates man:wpa_supplicant.conf[8].
> +SSIDs with Unicode characters are also handled nicely.
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> +man:wutil[8] is the Command-Line Interface (CLI), whereas man:wutui[8] is the Terminal User Interface (TUI).
> +wutui was built without any dependency on TUI libraries, by just spell-casting ANSI escape sequences in uncooked terminal raw mode and a man:kqueue[2] based event loop.
> +Both utilities communicate with wpa_supplicant via its control socket interface.
> +There is also a dependency on package:net/libifconfig[] for interface related functions.
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> +In the future, I plan to support AP-mode operations from man:hostapd[8], clean up the TUI components and perhaps move away from wpa_supplicant to handle authentication in-house.
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> +wutil is now available in ports.
> +Give it a whirl!
> +Contributions, bug reports and feature requests are very welcome on GitHub.
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> +Mentors: mailto:[email protected][Aymeric Wibo] and mailto:[email protected][Getz Mikalsen] +
> +Sponsor: Google Summer of Code 2025