NYC schools and cloaked APs

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Hi,

On 03.05.2008 16:52, Ricardo Carrano wrote:
> While the support is not there, NYC is considering disabling NetworkManager
> but this is not a good solution for (1) the XO will not boot into sugar and
>   

That would be a bug.

> (2) collaboration will not work, because the mesh view will be broken.
>   

That would be a bug as well.

> They are interested in a way (quick workaround) of doing the configuration
> manually in a persistent manner and still be able to collaborate. Any ideas?
>
> Btw, note that:
> - Manually editing networks.cfg won't work because the scanning (the
> blinking icon phase in the mesh view) is passive. So, if the AP do not
> broadcast its SSID it is like it is not there.
> - Manually associating  to the AP would work but NetworkManager prevents
> dhcp from working.
>   

It should be possible to manually associate with the AP, then kill
NetworkManager with SIGKILL so it can't mess things up during
termination. After that, dhcp should no longer present a problem.

> I have a feeling that enabling support to cloaked APs may be quicker than
> hatching a workaround, but to do it fast we would need help in the NM part.
>   

I was completely surprised when I read that NetworkManager is needed to
boot into sugar. I can't think of any scenario where that dependency
would make sense.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel