[OLPC-AU] joining script

[Jerry Vonau]

On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 09:43 +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 09:12:55AM +1000, Jonathan Nalder wrote:
> > I have been asked for the Queensland department of Education to find
> > if there is an existing XO script already written that allows them to
> > find and connect to hidden networks (such as our departments ones).
> 
> Can you describe the technical requirements?
> 
> What makes a network hidden?

Hidden SSID I'm guessing, while in gnome you can use NM's gui to "find
hidden network" to connect the hidden network. In gnome NM uses dbus
calls to replace wpa_supplicant.conf on the fly, storing the info in
~/.gconf/system/network/connections/<>. You can then switch to sugar,
and the connection remains active. Once you reboot, sugar is lost again
and can't "see" the AP with the hidden SSID. Just a note here, even in
gnome, stored connections are not automatic, you still have find the
hidden network before you can connect, just don't have to enter the info
again. There is info about using terminal to bring up the network at:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wifi_Connectivity

On a side note, couldn't do pre-NM style networking with just
wpa_supplicant and network? We would have to get the wpa_supplicant and
ifcfg files correct, but that seems better that resorting to the cli.

Jerry