Re: [tlug] WiFi Radar

["Hector Akamine" <akamine@example.com>]

Hi,

On 7/9/07, Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote:
> On 09/07/07, Alvarez <alvarezes@example.com> wrote:
>
> > I would like to port WiFi Radar application to FreeBSD, but I need the ins
> > and outs of porting Linux apps into FreeBSD. Can anyone pitch in some
> > knowledge? Thank you
>
> Well, the first step is just to do the "./configure && make" dance and
> see what breaks. Fix the compile errors, and then test the app. Fix
> the runtime errors and test more. When the app works, it is "ported".
>
> Unix software is usually pretty easy to port from one Unix to another,
> because it is usually written in C, which when written The Unix Way,
> is reasonably portable.

If it's the same Wi-Fi Radar I know, the application is a
python/PyGTK2 script that provides a GUI to some command line wi-fi
related utilities (iwconfig, iwlist, wpa_supplicant). I guess that
even in this case porting is possible. Am I wrong?