wireless

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wireless

A golang library to interact with the wireless library on linux.

Dependencies

• You must be building your golang application with cgo enabled (so no cross-compilation)
• libiw to be installed (libiw-dev on Ubuntu, wireless-tools on Arch)

Documentation

Index

• type Config
• type IwParam
• type NetworkInterface
  • func NetworkInterfaces() ([]NetworkInterface, error)
  • func (i NetworkInterface) BasicConfig() (Config, error)

Types

type Config

type Config struct {
	Name      string
	HasNwid   bool
	Nwid      IwParam
	HasFreq   bool
	Freq      float64
	FreqFlags int
	HasKey    bool
	Key       string
	KeySize   int
	KeyFlags  int
	HasEssid  bool
	EssidOn   bool
	Essid     string
	HasMode   bool
	Mode      int
}

Config is the wireless_config struct from iwlib.h

type IwParam

type IwParam struct {
	Value    int
	Fixed    bool
	Disabled bool
	Flags    uint16
}

IwParam is the iwparam struct from wireless.22.h

type NetworkInterface

type NetworkInterface string

NetworkInterface is the name of the wireless interface you wish to perform operations on

func NetworkInterfaces

func NetworkInterfaces() ([]NetworkInterface, error)

NetworkInterfaces enumerates /proc/net/wireless to discover all of the available wireless interfaces

func (NetworkInterface) BasicConfig

func (i NetworkInterface) BasicConfig() (Config, error)

BasicConfig retrieves the wireless configuration for the given interface name.