Correction, I can pull an IP address using my ad hoc wireless hosted by my UX, but the Chumby can't reach Chumby.com.  My assumption is that it needs the proxy too.  How can I get it to use the proxy?

Duane,

Thanks, though you missed my initial disclaimer about being an early adopter, but not a hacker.  I was able to use my other handtop (Fujitsu u810) to mimic the mac address of the Chumby, authenticate through the guest network, and then turned the Chumby back on without incident.  It's a pain in the a--, but will work for now.  I could send the html from the access if someone wanted to create the script...

KidDoc

I can ask, but it's a big ocean, and I'm just a medium fish who hacks around too much. 

KidDoc

I recommend that you go with Option 2 and get the password for the secured network.  That's what I do. 

Good luck!

PS--and I'm one of Duane's examples above.  I got two days of BS from IT RE "security risks," etc...and then when they came to my office and saw my Chumby, they immediatley asked how to get one and coughed up our password.

Ditto here, but I am luckily a bit more of a hacker...Duane, I think I can get your curl/wget solution working, thanks for the idea!

That being said, there are enough of the "enter email address, click I agree" style login pages around for "Guest Access" to wifi that it would probably be worth Chumby's while to come up with a little more "regular user"-friendly solution. I know webbrowser is too heavy to add just for this, so we'll have to get clever, I guess. Luckily, you guys have plenty of clever...*grin*

Heading home myself to play with some ideas here!

Oh, and mikeo13...I'm not a Windows guru on this stuff...maybe something under Internet Connection Sharing (but I don't know if that allows adhoc wifi access). Another idea might be a Linux LiveCD designed to make the laptop an access point...if there isn't one around already (I bet there is), it woldn't be too hard to roll one.

Not working yet...here's what I have so far (which is probably VERY much wrong, but it's been awhile since I've done manual wireless connectivity...)

#!/bin/sh
fbwrite "Working on network\n"
iwconfig rausb0 "mysid"
fbwrite "Getting lease\n"
/sbin/udhcpc
fbwrite "Curling out...\n"
curl -d "_FORM_SUBMIT=1" -d "which_form=guest" -d "l_bs_email=email@foo.bar" -o /mnt/usb/curlout.txt https://10.34.23.27/login.pl 
fbwrite "Cross fingers and sync time!!\n"
/usr/chumby/scripts/sync_time.sh

This is basically me guessing, based on what I've seen in the wired Ethernet script and such. Doesn't seem to work...after I see it run (fbwrite still writing on itself, but I'll worry about that later), it then goes to the Network config screen, which is no joy.

I need to bind to "mysid", then get connected to network (do I need the remaining config info for udhcpc, perhaps?), then post to the capture page to get registered. Then, skip network setup (which I guess it would if it was working...*Grin*)

Any help appreciated!!

Got it! A couple of relatively minor issues, and it appears to work pretty well! (I'm having to set the clock every time I start, even w/o the time sync in the script, or "set time from Internet" turned on...it appears our work wifi blocks ntp. *shrug* I can live with that.) I was using the wrong value for a form variable (a class id instead of form name...just an oopsie), and most importantly, I had to turn on "allow insecure ssl connections" with curl via "-k". This is because the post is against the ip address (that's how I get it in browser), but obviously, the cert isn't set for that. I get the warning message about mismatched certs in my Nokia 770's browser, but it took me a bit to put everything together.

So, this script below works for me. I can put it on the wiki, as an example for booting through a capture page, but bear in mind that you have to tweak the form values (-d "foo=bar") on a case by case basis, as Duane mentions earlier in this thread. Thanks for the inspiration, Duane! Now I can show off the Chumby at work RIGHT!

Roger (rnoia), thanks for the IP parsing stuff...that helped to confirm that I was at least getting a DHCP lease. At that point, I knew I just had to keep beating on curl until it worked. Boy, is curl awesome, or what?

Duane, also please suggest any improvements that you may notice. This is just "good enough"...I don't know if it's optimal.

#!/bin/sh
# bind to wifi network...replace "mysid" with the ESSID
iwconfig rausb0 essid "mysid"
# DHCP config; should be pretty standard
udhcpc -t 5 -n -p /var/run/udhcpc.rausb0.pid -i rausb0
# this outputs your IP address from the dhcp connect...you may need it (I did)
IP=`ifconfig rausb0 | perl -n -e 'if (m/inet addr:([\d\.]+)/g) { print $1 }'`;
fbwrite "$IP"
# post to capture login page. this has to be customized per form (I needed the ip addy from above for the source field)
# the -k is for the insecure https connection; you can remove if the post is to http:// rather than https://
OP=`curl -k -d "_FORM_SUBMIT=1" -d "which_form=guest" -d "bs_email=email@foo.bar" -d "source=10.9.31.165" -d "error=" -d "destination=http://www.google.com" https://10.34.23.27/login.pl`;
fbwrite "$OP"

KKennedy

I am not quite so handy with HTML.  I am just having a hard time figuring out what to pull out of the Form as submits.  Would it be possible for you to post the source for the HMTL that your scripts works for?  That way I could sort out the mapping and see what I need out of my source HTML.  Or if you'd be willing to help a guy our I can just post the html.

Thanks
Nick