[OLPC-AU] joining script

[Jerry Vonau]

On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 16:21 +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> 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.
> 

By default, in gnome NM doesn't list the hidden networks until you use
the tray icon to scan for them. Yes, that would be a welcome feature in
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.
> 

Did that above, with the stated results. Well that was interesting, used
the info gleaned from:

http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch13_:_Linux_Wireless_Networking#Further_WPA_Configuration_Steps_-_Fedora_.2F_RedHat

and I have a network connection. Now just need to document the steps on
how I did it. 

Jerry