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+#!/usr/bin/python
+"""net_monitor: wifi monitoring"""
+
+# native librari implements a few bits
+import _native
+import socket
+import fcntl
+import struct
+import traceback
+import array
+
+
+class Wireless:
+    # based on http://svn.pardus.org.tr/pardus/tags/pardus-1.0/system/base/wireless-tools/comar/link.py
+
+    # wireless IOCTL constants
+    SIOCGIWMODE = 0x8B07    # get operation mode
+    SIOCGIWRATE = 0x8B21    # get default bit rate
+    SIOCGIWESSID = 0x8B1B   # get essid
+
+    # wireless modes
+    modes = ['Auto', 'Ad-Hoc', 'Managed', 'Master', 'Repeat', 'Second', 'Monitor']
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
+
+    def ioctl(self, func, params):
+        return fcntl.ioctl(self.sock.fileno(), func, params)
+
+    def get_max_quality(self, iface):
+        """Gets maximum quality value"""
+        return _native.wifi_get_max_quality(iface)
+
+    def call(self, iface, func, arg=None):
+        if not arg:
+            data = (iface + '\0' * 32)[:32]
+        else:
+            data = (iface + '\0' * 16)[:16] + arg
+        try:
+            res = self.ioctl(func, data)
+            return res
+        except:
+            traceback.print_exc()
+            return None
+
+    def get_essid(self, iface):
+        """Get current essid for an interface"""
+        buffer = array.array('c', '\0' * 16)
+        addr, length = buffer.buffer_info()
+        arg = struct.pack('Pi', addr, length)
+        self.call(iface, self.SIOCGIWESSID, arg)
+        return buffer.tostring().strip('\0')
+
+    def get_mode(self, iface):
+        """Get current mode from an interface"""
+        result = self.call(iface, self.SIOCGIWMODE)
+        mode = struct.unpack("i", result[16:20])[0]
+        return self.modes[mode]
+
+    def get_bitrate(self, iface):
+        """Gets current operating rate from an interface"""
+        # Note: KILO is not 2^10 in wireless tools world
+
+        result = self.call(iface, self.SIOCGIWRATE)
+
+        if result:
+            size = struct.calcsize('ihbb')
+            m, e, i, pad = struct.unpack('ihbb', result[16:16+size])
+            if e == 0:
+                bitrate =  m
+            else:
+                bitrate = float(m) * 10**e
+            return bitrate
+        else:
+            return -1