Apparatus and method for wireless network connection

Abstract

Disclosed is a wireless network connection technique which minimizes a standby time required for connection to a wireless sharer or the like to thereby improve the convenience of using a wireless network. To this end, the apparatus for wireless network connection according to the present invention comprises: a wireless sharer information management unit which searches for a unique connection identifier of a wireless sharer; virtualization unit which generates a virtual network adapter obtained by virtualizing a network adapter to a software; and a network connection control unit which, when the unique connection identifier is retrieved by the wireless sharer in information management unit, enables the virtualization unit to generate the virtual network adapter and enables the virtual network adapter to determine whether the unique connection identifier is available.

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