WLAN Info API
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The WLAN Info API provides publish & subscribe keys for WLAN using which we can retrieve MAC Address and also check the WLAN status.
WLAN MAC address is also usually found printed on the phone underneath the battery.The star-hash code is : *#62209526#
Use cases
These P&S keys are useful to retrieve MAC Address even when there is no WLAN connection established.
They are useful to find out whether the WLAN connection is open type or WEP secured.
Example code
Header files
#include <wlaninternalpskeys.h>
#include <e32property.h>
LIBRARY euser.lib
The following UID & UInt values are provided in wlaninternalpskeys.h header.
const TUid KPSUidWlan = { 0x101f8ec5 };
const TUint KPSWlanMacAddress = 0x00000001;
const TUint KPSWlanIndicator = 0x00000002;
The RProperty type of KPSWlanMacAddress property is EByteArray.
The following code gives the unique WLAN MAC Address:
TBuf8<20> address;
RProperty::Get(KPSUidWlan,KPSWlanMacAddress,address);
TBuf<20> wlanMACAddress;
for ( TInt i = 0; i < address.Length(); i++ )
{
TUint16 addbyte = address[i];
wlanMACAddress.AppendFormat(_L("%02X:"), addbyte);
}
if ( wlanMACAddress.Length() ) // remove trailing ':'
{
wlanMACAddress.Delete(wlanMACAddress.Length()-1, 1);
}
CEikonEnv::InfoWinL(_L("WLan MAC Address \n"),wlanMACAddress);
The RProperty type of KPSWlanIndicator property is EInt.
The following code gives the information about WLAN connection:
TInt value;
RProperty::Get(KPSUidWlan,KPSWlanIndicator,value);
CAknInformationNote* informationNote = new (ELeave) CAknInformationNote;
TBuf<30> msg;
switch(value)
{
case EPSWlanIndicatorNone:
{
msg.Copy(_L("No Wlan Indicator"));
informationNote->ExecuteLD(msg);
break;
}
case EPSWlanIndicatorActive:
{
msg.Copy(_L("Wlan is Active"));
informationNote->ExecuteLD(msg);
break;
}
......
......
}
29 Sep
2009
WLAN Info API's are useful to retrieve WLAN MAC Address and to check the WLAN status. This article demonstrates the use of WLAN Settings UI API to get WLAN MAC Address and get information about WLAN connection, using publish & subscribe keys provided by WLAN Info API, which helps to understand how this API can be used. Note that this API, WLAN Info API, is not part of the public SDK. So you have to download it from SDK API Plug-in before using it. Furthermore, the author added a working demo project, which can be used for more detailed study of new opportunities for various kinds of experiments.
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