[talk] Choosing wifi networks on OpenBSD

[attila]

George Rosamond <george at ceetonetechnology.com> writes:

> Thomas Levine:
>> I wrote something to choose which wifi network to connect to.
>> http://src.thomaslevine.com/nljo/artifact/1c512ccb16ffa2d2
>> 
>>     $ ./nljo -h
>>     USAGE:   ./nljo [-h] <interface>
>>     EXAMPLE: ./nljo iwn0
>>     
>>     You must create a file named /etc/hostname.<interface>.<identifier>
>>     ./nljo will automatically scan for nwids and check which files
>>     reference
>>     an appropriate nwid, and then it will symlink one of these files to
>>     /etc/hostname.<interface>. If multiple files match (perhaps because
>>     multiple nwids are available), the one with the lowest identifier
>>     will
>>     be chosen. Consider the following file names.
>>     
>>       /etc/hostname.iwn0.!home
>>       /etc/hostname.iwn0.REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>       /etc/hostname.iwn0.hackerspace
>>       /etc/hostname.iwn0.zzz.airport
>>       /etc/hostname.iwn0.zzz.GreyhoundTerminal FreeWIFI
>>       /etc/hostname.iwn0.zzz.MacDonalds
>>     
>>     If /etc/hostname.iwn0.!home and /etc/hostname.iwn0.airport both
>>     reference the available nwids (possibly the same nwid), !home will
>>     probably win because it is lower in alphabetical order, though this
>>     depends on your locale.
>> 
>> (I chose the name by banging on my keyboard, in case you were
>> wondering.)    
>> 
>> Surely someone has already written a better version of this program.
>> Can you point me to a more stable program with a similar interface?
>> Or does the base system perhaps already include a better approach
>> for choosing wifi networks?
>
> Nice.
>
> I need to dig it up, but there is some "wireless" port floating around
> on github that Brian Conway (of Resflash) submitted to OpenBSD ports@
> that was written in shell.
>
> I looked into this recently... need to find the other related stuff.

This has come up several times in recent memory on the OpenBSD lists.
Here's the first thread I could find easily, from June 2016 about
a script Rai Lai wrote called wifind:

    http://marc.info/?t=146488521800002&r=1&w=2

Many people keep reinventing this wheel; nobody seems to like anyone
else's.  Funny, that.  I myself have a script I have used for so long
it's kind of embarassing, but it's specific to my use case...

... and anyway, I avoid wifi.  It seems... unhygenic somehow...

Pax, -A

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