How to tweak a WiFi driver in Linux?

I want to take aт existing, a standard or one of the popular ones, WiFi driver for Linux and tweak it. I'll inroduce a whitelist into it. That is, to the consumer a driver will show the networks from a whitelist only ignoring all other ones.

It's a PoC. I want to implement it as simply as possible.

Can this be implemented? And how, in a high level?

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SteveTech@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Well here's the AP scan code for the Intel WiFi driver: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-fixes.git/tree/net/wireless/scan.c

Go though the occurrences of SSID and decide whether you need to add some code to check it before continuing for each one.

Then you can either compile a whole new kernel, or setup dkms to dynamically load the module in.

nothingness@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Thanks

baggins@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I would read the code and find the relevant sections then see if it's simple enough to do what I want.

nothingness@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

How would you evaluate whether or not it'd be simple enough?

baggins@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y

If I can understand the code well enough and have an idea of how to implement the changes I would want to make.