Error getting position: Router mac address query failed
Javier Fernandez Garcia-Boente
jfernandez at igalia.com
Wed Sep 22 02:37:41 PDT 2010
On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 12:11 +0300, Jussi Kukkonen wrote:
> On 08/31/2010 03:26 PM, Javier Fernandez Garcia-Boente wrote:
> There's still the question of what MAC address to use: we should of
> course do what the databases do, but that's not so simple...
>
> Skyhook uses at least AP macs, there is no documentation so hard to say
> anything else. Plazes was/is "free-for-all" database so it might contain
> anything but their api docs clearly talk about "gateway mac address" so
> current geoclue implementation is broken in my opinion, as it uses the
> AP mac address. The gateway mac doesn't seem to be available via NM at
> least.
At least I read some info about Plazes using the router MAC. I've
provided also some patches to use the router MAC instead the AP one.
Connman has support for the getting the router MAC.
--
Javi
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