dswifi for Wii?

[laggflor]

Hi,

is there something similar to dswifi for the Wii (or does dswifi work on the Wii)?

Thanks in advance,
best regards, Florian.

[Izhido]

Assuming that, by dswifi, you meant the WiFi-based network library available for the DS, you'll be happy to know there is an almost complete WiFi network stack implemented for the Wii. Check the example projects, there should be something of your interest in there.

[laggflor]

WiFi-based network library

Hm, I want to search for available networks and connect to them. I cannot find examples for it, can you point me to these?
Thanks.

[Izhido]

Uh... for a Wii? What for? Remember, all network tools required to connect to a LAN/wireless network are already available through the Wii configuration menu (unlike the DS, where we actually have no choice but expose those functions to the DS application)...

... or am I missing something here?

[laggflor]

Uh... for a Wii? What for? Remember, all network tools required to connect to a LAN/wireless network are already available through the Wii configuration menu (unlike the DS, where we actually have no choice but expose those functions to the DS application)...

... or am I missing something here?

No, you don't, but...
My problem is, I have to choose another wireless network almost any time I use my Wii because I seldom use it at the same place. And I have much more than three places - so saving a profile and choosing it takes some time. Also many people use the default passwords given by the ISP which are very long.

Therefore an application in the System-Menu which searches for available Networks and then passes the correct configuration to the System-Menu (or simply connects if possible that way) would be a big time saver. I know - coding the app takes some time too - I'm just evaluating the effort. Anyhow I would enjoy to shorten the time I need to start playing!

I hope I fully explanied my request. Thanks for any help so far.
regards, Florian.

[laggflor]

Since there is no real answer until now it seems to be impossible. Can someone confirm this?

[Izhido]

Impossible? I don't think so. What I do think is that, until now, nobody ever thought of exposing WiFi config. info for the purpose you just mentioned. You might want to contact the people that created the toolchain & libraries, and see if you get lucky with that.

If you have access to an IRC client, point it to irc.blitzed.org, channel #wiidev . Most people involved in the creation & maintenance of devkitPPC hang out there. Good luck!

[WinterMute]

Being honest this is unlikely to be a priority request, libogc handles wii network connections through Nintendo IOS and I don't know if this sort of thing is even possible.

[laggflor]

Okay, thanks. I'll look into it.