[OLPC-AU] joining script

[James Cameron]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 12:53:16AM -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote:
> 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.

Okay, I'm not familiar with that.  Sugar obtains the list of networks
scanned from NetworkManager (NM).  If NM doesn't provide it, Sugar won't
list it.  Sounds like a potential feature request for Sugar.

> 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.

I don't know, sorry.  devel at lists.laptop.org may have people who know.

I suggest you try the wireless firmware against a hidden network, to see
what it does.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/