[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Update on command line wifi connections

[From: D. Scott Brown]

On Oct 11, 2006, at 1:47 AM, Patrik Flykt wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 16:21 -0400, ext D. Scott Brown wrote:
>> Hmmm... then could we use gconf to write our own IAP configuration
>> files from the command line, and then use the osso_iap_connect
>> function to invisibly connect to the network we've created outside of
>> the dialog?
>
> Yes, you could do exactly that. And if you want icd to automatically
> clean up the settings from gconf after disconnect, name it starting  
> with
> '[EasyWLAN'. As an example select a new unsaved wlan SSID from the
> 'Select connection' dialog and do not let the UI save it. Watch the  
> the
> gconf settings.

I tried using the gconf bindings in Python, but it looks like they're  
not updated yet. Instead, I used the command line gconftool with -- 
dump and --load to set up new IAPs. The problem I'm hitting is  
EAP_wpa_preshared_key. I haven't been able to find anything online  
about converting a string password into the 32 byte int list in the  
gconf entry. It looks like some kind of encryption process happens  
between when a user types a WPA password in the dialog, and what's  
written into the gconf entry.

Is there a command line tool or API for converting password strings  
into the preshared_key list format?

Many thanks,
Scott