Free wireless radio for bluetooth 2.0 software for linux

The Linux Wireless Extension and the Wireless Tools are an Open Source project sponsored by Hewlett Packard (through my contribution) since 1996, and build with the contribution of many Linux users all over the world.

The Wireless Extension (WE) is a generic API allowing a driver to expose to the user space configuration and statistics specific to common Wireless LANs. The beauty of it is that a single set of tool can support all the variations of Wireless LANs, regardless of their type (as long as the driver support Wireless Extension).

Another advantage is these parameters may be changed on the fly without restarting the driver (or Linux).

The Wireless Tools (WT) is a set of tools allowing to manipulate the Wireless Extensions. They use a textual interface and are rather crude, but aim to support the full Wireless Extension. There are many other tools you can use with Wireless Extensions, however Wireless Tools is the reference implementation.

iwconfig manipulate the basic wireless parameters
iwlist allow to initiate scanning and list frequencies, bit-rates, encryption keys...
iwspy allow to get per node link quality
iwpriv allow to manipulate the Wireless Extensions specific to a driver (private)
ifrename allow to name interfaces based on various static criteria

Most Linux distributions also have integrated Wireless Extensions support in their networking initialisation scripts, for easier boot-time configuration of wireless interfaces. They also include Wireless Tools as part of their standard packages.
Wireless configuration can also be done using the Hotplug scripts and distribution specific support, this enable the proper support of any removable wireless interface (Pcmcia, CardBus, USB...).

Any versions of the Pcmcia package offer the possibility to do wireless configuration of Pcmcia and Cardbus card through thefile wireless.opts. This allow to fully integrate wireless settings in the Pcmcia scheme mechansism. However, this method is now deprecated in favor of distribution specific methods.

Please note that the Wireless Tools (starting with version 19) supports fully IEEE 802.11 parameters and devices, support older style of devices and most proprietary protocols, and are prepared to handle HiperLan as well. More recent versions of course adds more 802.11 support.

But, unfortunately not all drivers support all these features...

This is a small application allowing you to scan for wireless networks and connect to them.
Wireless Assistant uses wireless-tools as its backend, so they need to be installed.
All feedback as well as hints and good advice are appreciated!
Installation:
make -f Makefile.cvs
./configure
make
su -c "make install"
Enhancements:
- NOTE: This release includes some brand new or rewritten features. Please submit bugs to sf.net page and comments/votes here. Thanks!
- NEW: Finally WPA-PSK support (WPA/WPA2, please test and report in case of problems!)
- NEW/FIX: Rewritten, completely new connection state detection (please comment!)
- NEW: Optional grouping of APs with the same ESSID
- FIX: UI refinements
- FIX: hide encryption keys in console output and edit dialogs
- FIX: Connection using dhclient fails
- FIX: dont check for connection while wizard is running
- FIX: remove default gateway upon disconnection if not managed by DHCP client
- FIX: updated Polish translation (with help from riklaunim)
- FIX: Many internal changes, more stable

GNOME Bluetooth are tools for controlling and communicating with Bluetooth devices.

GNOME Bluetooth includes a GNOME platform library and associated tools for interfacing with and managing Bluetooth devices. Includes OBEX file transfer utilities and a prototype device manager.

GNOME Bluetooth was originally developed by Edd Dumbill, and its primary maintainer is now Bastien Nocera.

The software is free, licensed under the GPL.

The software is still in beta development right now. This means that there are bugs. Be careful!

XFCE Radio Plugin is a plugin for the XFCE panel, which allows you to control your v4l radio device from within the panel.

iRATE radio provides users with a powerful new way to find and download free, legal music online.

Users rate tracks based on their tastes. The iRATE server then selects other tracks to send to the user from a database of over 50,000 freely downloadable songs by correlating the users ratings with other users, and finding people with similar tastes.

Unlike streaming audio, iRATE saves the tracks to the users hard drive. This means that playback is smoother, without the typical problems associated with streaming media, such as high bandwidth usage.

GENRIP is a kernel driver (presently for Linux only) that enables you to carry ethernet frames over generic low-speed/low-power serial radios, such as Microhards MHX series radios. It is intended to speed up the development cycle for those creating low-powered Embedded telemetry and SCADA devices, but may have other applications as well. Once installed, the serial radio simply appears as a network interface like this:

[root@lindev]# ./ifconfig gr0
gr0 Link encap:Generic Radio IP HWaddr 00:00:02:04:06:08
inet addr:192.168.15.1 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP RUNNING MTU:234 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:30
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

GENRIP was originally based upon Stuart Cheshires STRIP driver, which is part of the Mobile Computing Group at Stanford Universitys Mosquitonet project. It has been radically modified since.

GENRIP was ported to this application by Lawrence Wimble of Design On Demand, Inc. Design On Demand, Inc. maintains GENRIP and hopes that youll call them if you need help with an embedded project using GENRIP (or any embedded project for that matter).

GENRIP is released for Linux under the GPL. A port to FreeBSD is planned in the near future.

The Stewie Radio Automation Project is a stand-in replacement for the "XMMS playlist on random" style of independent radio station.
Once properly configured, the user will enjoy the low maintenance of a "random playlist" station while still being able to use legal IDs, liners, multiple playlists, and music logs.
Main features:
- Low maintenance
- Multiple playlists
- Liners
- Legal IDs
- Logs every song and liner played
- Records errors and keeps truckin
Enhancements:
- Fixed a few bugs in install script
- Created error log/warning system
- Main script now updates the settings in stewie.conf in order to continue running. The only thing that *should* kill it, is not having any music available in the "master" playlist.
- Config file can be updated while script is running
- install-stewie gives "not found" audio players another chance
- Rewrote README file