[ltp] Re: Managing network connections

Daniel Pittman linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:46:16 +1000


Brad Langhorst <brad@langhorst.com> writes:
> On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 14:04 +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>
>> I also have a generic "no protection, any SSID" entry as the lowest
>> priority, and DHCP, so that I can connect to open access points without
>> having to do anything.
>
> i can't get that to work...
> i have to put each network into wpa_supplicant.conf to connect.
>
> what do you put in there?
>
> i've tried
>
> network={
>         ssid="any"
>         key_mgmt=NONE
>         priority=0
> }

ssid="*" should do what you want, as I understand it.  

I have not tested this extensively, but I seem to recall it working last
year when I did have access to a random access point...

     Daniel