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NiLuJe 96850c23a0
NetworkMgr: Refine isConnected check (#10098)
Much easier to deal with thanks to the cleanup work done in #10062 ;).

* `carrier` is set to 1 as soon as the device is *administratively* up (in practice, as soon as we run `ifconfig up`). This is perfectly fine for `isWifiOn`, but absolutely not for `isConnected`, because we are not, actually, connected to *anything*, no attempt at associating has even been made at that point. Besides being semantically wrong, in practice, this will horribly break the connectivity check, because it expects that `isConnected` means we can talk to at least the LAN.
* Delving into the Linux docs reveals that `operstate` looks like a better candidate, as it reflects *operational status*; for Wi-Fi, that means associated and successfully authenticated. That's... closer, but still not it, because we still don't have an IP, so we technically can't talk to anything other than the AP.
* So, I've brought out the big guns (`getifaddrs`), and replicated a bit of code that I already use in the USBNetwork hack on Kindle, to detect whether we actually have an IP assigned. (Other approaches, like `/proc/net/route`, may not be entirely fool-proof, and/or get complicated when IPv6 enters the fray (which it does, on Kobo, Mk. 8+ devices are IPv6-enabled)).

TL;DR: Bunch of C via ffi, and `isConnected` now returns true only when the device is operationally up *and* we have an IP assigned.

Pulls in https://github.com/koreader/koreader-base/pull/1579 & https://github.com/koreader/lj-wpaclient/pull/10
2023-02-10 23:47:08 +01:00
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device.lua NetworkMgr: Refine isConnected check (#10098) 2023-02-10 23:47:08 +01:00
powerd.lua Initial Kindle PW5 support (#8856) 2022-03-14 19:56:18 +01:00