diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2025-07-2025-09/wutil.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-07-2025-09/wutil.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0c35e15be9 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-07-2025-09/wutil.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +=== A new Wi-Fi management utility: wutil + +Links: + +link:https://github.com/MainKt/wutil[source code] URL: link:https://github.com/MainKt/wutil[] + +link:https://www.freshports.org/net/wutil[port] URL: link:https://www.freshports.org/net/wutil[] + +Contact: Muhammad Saheed + + +package:net/wutil[] is a Wi-Fi management utility that supports most man:wpa_supplicant[8] station-mode operations (scanning, connecting or disconnecting from wireless networks, and managing known networks, etc.), accessible with much nicer interfaces. +It also automatically manages and updates man:wpa_supplicant.conf[8]. +SSIDs with Unicode characters are also handled nicely. + +man:wutil[8] is the Command-Line Interface (CLI), whereas man:wutui[8] is the Terminal User Interface (TUI). +wutui was built without any dependency on TUI libraries, by just spell-casting ANSI escape sequences in uncooked terminal raw mode and a man:kqueue[2] based event loop. +Both utilities communicate with wpa_supplicant via its control socket interface. +There is also a dependency on package:net/libifconfig[] for interface related functions. + +In the future, I plan to support AP-mode operations from man:hostapd[8], clean up the TUI components and perhaps move away from wpa_supplicant to handle authentication in-house. + +wutil is now available in ports. +Give it a whirl! +Contributions, bug reports and feature requests are very welcome on GitHub. + +Mentors: mailto:obiwac@FreeBSD.org[Aymeric Wibo] and mailto:getz@FreeBSD.org[Getz Mikalsen] + +Sponsor: Google Summer of Code 2025