This will hide the outdoor mode setting on compatible devices in case
the defined channels should be preserved.
Otherwise a user might be under the impression their device is compliant
with outdoor operation when in reality it still uses prohibited
channels.
Separate wireless-related helper methods from the util module to a
new wireless module. This keeps them separated, as the amount of
wireless helpers increased in the past, justifying a separate module.
gsub() returns the number of matches as its second return value. This
was unintendedly passed through by the util functions trim() and
node_id(). It can be presumed that this had no effect in practice, but
it can lead to surprising output when passing values to print() for
debugging.
This adds a helper method, which determines if the current platform
supports WPA3 or not.
WPA3 is supported if
- the device is not in the featureset category "tiny"
- the WiFi driver supports 802.11w management frame protection
mac_to_ip() calculates an ipv6 address from a mac address according to
RFC 4291. For wireguard we have to use specially crafted addresses that
must be unique. This allows calculating such unique mac-based addresses
by allowing to optionally specifying the bytes to be inserted into the
address.
Gluon has multiple ways to obtain unique MAC-addresses. They are either
provided by the WiFi driver or derived from the primary MAC-address.
Quoting the same file:
> It's necessary that the first 45 bits of the MAC address don't
> vary on a single hardware interface, since some chips are using
> a hardware MAC filter. (e.g 'rt305x')
This currently fails in case the rt35xx based chips mac address differs
from the primary MAC. In this case, the MAC address for the client0 radio
(vif 1) comes from the WiFi driver. As there is only a single
MAC-address provided by '/sys/class/ieee80211/phyX/addresses' but the
MAC-address for mesh 0 (vif 2) is derived from the Node-ID, resulting in
different first 45 bits. The WiFi won't come up altogether in this case.
This commit verifies at least 4 MAC-Addresses are provided by the WiFi
driver. If this is not the case, all MAC-addresses are derived from the
primary MAC. This way, affected radios are working correctly.
Both gluon.sysconfig and libgluonutil already remove the trailing newline
if it exists. It's nicer to avoid files without a trailing newline, e.g.
for printing the file contents in a terminal.
