NYC schools and cloaked APs

[Morgan Collett]

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
<c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> On 05.05.2008 12:24, Morgan Collett wrote:
>  > On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>  >
>  >> On 03.05.2008, at 21:48, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>  >>  > 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.
>  >>
>  >>  Sugar works fine in jhbuild without NM, including collaboration via
>  >>  the "mesh view" (no access points visible, but xo kid icons). I'd be
>  >>  surprised if it didn't on the XO.
>  >>
>  >
>  > Presence Service will only attempt to connect to a jabber server if it
>  > sees Network Manager get a valid IP address. Without that, you only
>  > see the salut / link local collaboration, which works for <10 XOs on
>  > the mesh.
>  >
>
>  Wait a second. Presence Service requires NetworkManager instead of
>  requiring a valid IP address?

It looks like there is a fallback for checking the IP address if
Network Manager is not detected on the D-Bus system bus. I've never
tested it though.

Morgan