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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The current wireless infrastructure uses
open authentication with static WEP and cloaked SSIDs.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
ricardo.c.carrano@gmail.com [mailto:ricardo.c.carrano@gmail.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Ricardo Carrano<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, May 07, 2008 4:02
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> C. Scott Ananian<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> cortland.setlow@gmail.com; <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Lai Bruce</st1:PersonName>; Motaib Abdel; <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Vigilante
Steve</st1:PersonName>; <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Bentahar Latif</st1:PersonName>;
Kambouras Tom; <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Kerner Marty</st1:PersonName>; Devel<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: NYC schools and
cloaked APs</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:05 PM, C. Scott Ananian <<a
href="mailto:cscott@laptop.org">cscott@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>2008/5/3 Ricardo Carrano <<a href="mailto:carrano@laptop.org">carrano@laptop.org</a>>:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>> NYC schools use
cloaked access points to provide wireless connectivity.<br>
> We currently do not support cloaked APs (and ... ok, they hardly provide
any<br>
> additional security).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>From looking through the code, the most elegant & supportable
solution<br>
seems to be to be to extend the results returned by NetworkManager's<br>
"get networks" dbus interface (code in<br>
/usr/share/sugar/shell/hardware/nmclient.py) to include a number of<br>
'statically configured' networks from ~olpc/.configuration/networks.<br>
Once nmclient's datastructure is extended in this way, the rest of the<br>
UI and nmclient code should work 'as is' to display these networks in<br>
the mesh view and allow connections to them.<br>
<br>
Another alternative is to simply hack some dbus-send commands into<br>
rc.local to force NetworkManager to connect to the proper network.<br>
<br>
Ricardo, Blake's asked for more information to help work on the<br>
NetworkManager side of this. Is it just a cloaked AP, or is there<br>
WEP/WPA/WPA2 involved, etc?<br>
--scott<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Scott,<br>
Sounds like a great plan (or two)!<br>
<br>
NYC friends:<br>
Are the APs in NYC schools open?<br>
<br>
--<br>
RC<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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