Hello, I am actually working for a British university, but a colleague pointed out this discussion to me. I hope you don't mind me posting to your list.
As it happens, i have been developing a wireless automatic configuration tool ready for our new academic year in September. It works on much the same principles as the c++ script mentioned previously. The tool i have written will configure Windows XP (SP3 or SP2 with KB update) and Vista clients using the native WLAN API. The tool is currently only in beta, but i am releasing it under a GPL licence so anyone can contribute to it or hack it apart if they wish. It can be found at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/su1x/ It comprises of two parts at the moment: 1. A profile capture tool that you run on a manually configured computer to capture the wireless profile to a xml file. 2. A setup tool that then does all the checks etc and imports the captured profile on a non setup computer. I have written it with easy site customisation in mind, so if you don't want to mess with code you only need to edit the config.ini to change the text and images. Its written in autoit and also takes care of IE/Firefox proxy settings and will work for any SSID. It probably has some bugs etc so i would appreciate any feedback or contributions, and i will add them to the project. Would be good if we could combine our efforts to save duplicating effort. Thanks, Gareth Ayres. Swansea University. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gareth Ayres MRes, BSc, MIET Wireless Network Officer Library & Information Services Swansea University, Singleton Park, Wales, UK SA2 8PP e-mail: [email protected] voice: +44 (1792) 602235 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
