On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:05 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/5/3 Ricardo Carrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > NYC schools use cloaked access points to provide wireless connectivity. > > We currently do not support cloaked APs (and ... ok, they hardly provide > any > > additional security). > > From looking through the code, the most elegant & supportable solution > seems to be to be to extend the results returned by NetworkManager's > "get networks" dbus interface (code in > /usr/share/sugar/shell/hardware/nmclient.py) to include a number of > 'statically configured' networks from ~olpc/.configuration/networks. > Once nmclient's datastructure is extended in this way, the rest of the > UI and nmclient code should work 'as is' to display these networks in > the mesh view and allow connections to them. > > Another alternative is to simply hack some dbus-send commands into > rc.local to force NetworkManager to connect to the proper network. > > Ricardo, Blake's asked for more information to help work on the > NetworkManager side of this. Is it just a cloaked AP, or is there > WEP/WPA/WPA2 involved, etc? > --scott > Scott, Sounds like a great plan (or two)! NYC friends: Are the APs in NYC schools open? -- RC
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