Re: AP Scanning
Tobias Roth <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 06:41:57PM +0400, Anton Nikiforov wrote: > I'm traveling between a few locations with differn APs configuration and > differen options to access internet (dhcp, proxys etc). > In addition some offices have no WiFi APs installed, so i use ethernet > cable or ppp over GPRS connection there. > And i wold like my noteook to swith profiles automaticaly (i want to > test radio environment in case no ethernet cable is attached and i know > how to do it). And if no ethernet nor radio available - it should > connect over ppp (if usb cable is attached). http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2003-November/002284.html i didn't consider ppp when i made this, maybe i will some day. but as you want to use ppp as a 'last resort', this will definitely work without problems with my patch. > I understand that there is a simple way to test the radio invironment by > setting up ssid and other parameters and check if the interface become > assotiated, but i do not like this idea. > Maybe there is something that i coud use as a key to start interfase in > one of the predefined configurations (like before setting a ssid to read > AP's serial or whatever unique location ID)? Maybe even scan an air for > APs that i do not know? :) you can use the MAC address for that if hat is what you meant. not really secure, but it might do. > And additional questions - is how to change Mozilla/gaim configuration > "on the fly" to correspnd to each location. (but this question is not > FreeBSD related, so it could be considered as OFFTOPIC, but maye someone > solved already this problem?) you can do this very easily with my patch plus a small shell script. basically, everything that is not configured from within /etc needs to be configured through a custom shell script. you can have mine, but it is not very sophisticated. cheers, t. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"