NAME
Win32::Wlan - Query wlan properties
SYNOPSIS
require Win32::Wlan;
my $wlan = Win32::Wlan->new;
if ($wlan->available) {
print "Connected to ", $wlan->connection->{profile_name},"\n";
print "I see the following networks\n";
for ($wlan->visible_networks) {
printf "%s\t-%d dbm\n", $_->{name}, $_->{signal_quality};
};
} else {
print "No Wlan detected (or switched off)\n";
};
METHODS
Win32::Wlan->new( %args )
my $wlan = Win32::Wlan->new();
Creates a new Win32::Wlan object.
available
- optional argument to force detection of general Wlan availabilityhandle
- optional argument to give an existing Wlan handle to the objectinterface
- optional argument to give an existing guuid to the object
$wlan->handle
Returns the Windows API handle for the Wlan API.
$wlan->interface
print $wlan->interface->{name};
Returns a hashref describing the interface. The keys are guuid
for the guuid, name
for the human-readable name and status
for the status of the interface.
$wlan->available
$wlan->available
or warn "Wlan API is not available";
Returns whether the Wlan API is available. The Wlan API is available on Windows XP SP3 or higher.
$wlan->connected
$wlan->connected
or warn "Wlan connection unavailable";
Returns whether a Wlan connection is established. No connection is established when Wlan is switched off or no access point is in range.
$wlan->connection
if ($wlan->connected) {
print "Connected to ";
print $wlan->connection->{profile_name};
};
Returns information about the current connection in a hashref. The keys are
profile_name
- the name of the profile of the current connection
$wlan->visible_networks
Returns information about the currently visible networks as a list of hashrefs.
ssid
- the SSID of the networksignal_quality
- the signal quality ranging linearly from 0 to 100 meaning -100 dbm to -50 dbm
SIMPLIFICATIONS
This module only supports the first wireless connection. If your machine has more than one wireless connection, you will need to use Win32::Wlan::API directly.
Currently, the module also has no way of determining whether Wlan gets switched on or off.
SEE ALSO
Win32::Wlan::API - the wrapper for the Windows API
Windows Native Wifi Reference
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms706274%28v=VS.85%29.aspx
REPOSITORY
The public repository of this module is https://github.com/Corion/Win32-Wlan.
SUPPORT
The public support forum of this module is https://perlmonks.org/.
BUG TRACKER
Please report bugs in this module via the RT CPAN bug queue at https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Win32-Wlan or via mail to win32-wlan-Bugs@rt.cpan.org.
AUTHOR
Max Maischein corion@cpan.org
COPYRIGHT (c)
Copyright 2011-2022 by Max Maischein corion@cpan.org
.
LICENSE
This module is released under the same terms as Perl itself.