This application aims to help to make life easier when connecting your Nokia N900 to wifi networks (wlan) that requires you to visit a captive portal page before you can access the Internet.
I got tired of not being able to connect easily to networks guarded by a login page, so I created this app to scratch that itch. Nokia doesn't supply this feature and when asked for, it's out of scope for the N900.
When you're connected to a "new" network, you get this popup which asks you if you want to launch a browser. Simply press Yes or No to open a new browser window. The next time you connect to that network, the same action will be take (open or not open a browser window), unless you untick the "Remember this decision" checkbox. (You'd get the same popup each time instead.)
If you fire up the configuration/settings GUI (it's called Wifi Assistant and the icon looks like the one at the top this page) you get a list of all the networks we've used and whether to launch a browser or not. You can change the settings by tapping the line you want to change.
You can turn the daemon off (kind of) so that it won't show popups. It'll still open a new browser window when you connect to networks where you've selected "Yes" previously.
Get the debian package file (wifi-assistant_X.X.X_all.deb) from the Files section at this projects' garage (home). If you download the file using your browser, the phone
This application is free to use, inspect, adapt and share, licensed under a BSD type license.
Comes included from the start ...
There's no grand bug tracking system setup for this project. If the application doesn't work as expected, feel free to send me an e-mail, or post a message in the forum here at garage.maemo.org.
The only real "bug" right now is that network names with spaces in them aren't handled properly (they can't be part of a gconf key).
Is available, get it with git clone https://vcs.maemo.org/git/wifi-assistant or
you could browse it online.
There's more info at the SCM page.
To Lisa, Anton and Leia who support me (kind of) while I'm up late etc.
A big thanks to Andrew Flegg (Jaffa) - the build files for this application are extremely similar to those used for the excellent anti-blue man syndrome application Hermes.
You could either simply donate to PayPal, or Flattr this project - either way: thanks for your support!