08-27-2009
connecting to network, auto-entering info
Hey guys,
I just started college a few days ago. To my dismay, my school has a very frustrating wireless network access system. Every time you want to use the network, you need to open up a browser and get re-directed to a login page. Every access, you need to reenter the same username and password. Needless to say, this is becoming very tedious and annoying. Is there any way to write a script to automatically open up Firefox and submit the information? The info is automatically filled in with password manager, it just needs to be submitted. I was thinking that I could make a macro, but I don't really know what I'm doing when it comes to that.
I've been learning Unix for a few months now, and am moderately proficient with the command line. This could be a simple solution, if it is I apologize for the waste of time.
Appreciate the help, thank you for your time.
EDIT: Forgot to mention the frustrating part, the network logs you off after minutes of inactivity, so this a frequent process that needs to be undertaken
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wireless
WIRELESS(7) Linux Programmer's Manual WIRELESS(7)
NAME
wireless - Wireless Tools and Wireless Extensions
SYNOPSIS
iwconfig
iwpriv -a
DESCRIPTION
The Wireless Extensions is an API allowing you manipulate Wireless LAN networking interfaces. It is composed of a variety of tools and
configuration files. It is documented in more details in the Linux Wireless LAN Howto.
The Wireless Tools are use to change configuration on the fly, to get statistics and diagnose those interfaces. They are described in their
own man page (see below).
Wireless configuration is specific to each Linux distribution. This man page will contain in the future the configuration procedure for a
few common distributions (when I get the necessary info from them). For the time being, check the various files included with the Wireless
Tools package.
DEBIAN 3.0
Debian 3.0 (and later) has integrated wireless configuration in their network scripts.
File : /etc/network/interfaces
Form : wireless_<function> <value>
wireless_essid Home
wireless_mode ad_hoc
See also :
/etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tool
/usr/share/doc/wireless.##/README.Debian
ORIGINAL PCMCIA SCRIPTS
If you are using the original configuration scripts from the Pcmcia package, you can use this method.
File : /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts
Form : *,*,*,*)
ESSID="MY_ESSID"
MODE="Managed"
;;
See also :
/etc/pcmcia/wireless
File PCMCIA.txt part of Wireless Tools package
AUTHOR
Jean Tourrilhes - jt@hpl.hp.com
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
SEE ALSO
iwconfig(8), iwlist(8), iwspy(8), iwpriv(8), iwevent(8).
net-tools 12 July 2002 WIRELESS(7)