The current wireless infrastructure uses open authentication with static WEP and cloaked SSIDs.
Thanks ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ricardo Carrano Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 4:02 PM To: C. Scott Ananian Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Lai Bruce; Motaib Abdel; Vigilante Steve; Bentahar Latif; Kambouras Tom; Kerner Marty; Devel Subject: Re: NYC schools and cloaked APs 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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