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Re: How to detect Wifi device?


  • Subject: Re: How to detect Wifi device?
  • From: Jay Koutavas <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:40:06 -0400

At 12:14 PM -0700 7/19/05, email@hidden wrote:

At 21:13 -0400 18/7/05, Jay Koutavas wrote:
Hi all. I've been digging through OS X API documentation for the
last couple of hours, trying to find info/example of how to
determine if a wifi (802.11 device) is installed and up and running.
The solution needs to be Panther friendly. Could someone throw me a
pointer?

At 10:10 -0400 19/7/05, Peter Sichel wrote:
You'll want to use Apple's AirPort API which you can get from Apple DTS.
Look for "Apple80211.framework"

Well, it depends on exactly what you're trying to detect. If all you want to know is whether the machine is using 802.11 networking, you can get that information via the public System Configuration framework (SCF).

Let us know what you're looking and I can be more specific.

S+E
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Quinn "The Eskimo!"                    <http://www.apple.com/developer/>
Apple Developer Technical Support * Networking, Communications, Hardware

Thanks for the quick reply Quinn. Good to see you are still about. I remember you from waaaay back from the days when you did the InternetConfig stuff.


SCF is exactly what I was looking for. I googled around for it and found this useful code example http://cocoa.mamasam.com/COCOADEV/2001/11/2/18325.php.

What is/are the recommended System Configuration query/queries to make to determine if the machine has an active wifi internet connection? Are there more specific keys to be found then the docs at http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Networking/Conceptual/SystemConfigFrameworks/SC_UnderstandSchema/chapter_4_section_3.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001065-CH203-BGBEFCEH?

/Jay
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