On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 17:15 -0400, Andrew Barr wrote: > On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 15:57 -0500, Ted Gould wrote: > > - Bonjour. I've heard (but never tried) that if a bunch of Macs are > > sitting around, they can find each other and IM using Bonjour. The > > example relayed to me was at a conference the reporter wasn't close enough > > to the speaker to get a good picture. So, he got on IM and found someone > > closer to send him a picture. It would be very cool to do similar stuff, > > and connect to the same Macs, through the 770. > > I was going to try compiling avahi-daemon for this purpose--it makes > addressing a device in an ad-hoc network with link-local addresses MUCH > easier, among other things. > > The IM bits are supported by Gaim 2.0 beta releases.
Very cool. Sounds exciting.
I think Bonjour can have other interesting solutions built on top of it.
If nothing else, finding Doom network games ;)
> > - LEAP support. I'm not sure if Cisco allows anyone to know about LEAP,
> > especially in an open platform. But, it'd be nice to be able to log on to
> > Cisco wireless.
>
> This has been long supported by wpa_supplicant (no thanks to Cisco
> though). Unfortunately, the Nokia IAP software is closed-source and I
> don't know if it's related to wpa_supplicant at all. You might have some
> luck with wpa_supplicant but unless the proprietary WLAN driver supports
> the latest WE extensions or the prism54 wpa_supplicant driver you're
> likely out of luck.
Okay, I'll look into it more. It wasn't listed on the options in the
networking configuration dialog, and I didn't look further.
--Ted
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