Knowledge Arcana

The purpose of this page is to provide a dump of random useful facts which are not easily found anywhere else and are not easily categorized

• There is a special network for IoT devices, in case you're working with a device that can't make it past the paywall. Here is the wpa supplicant configuration.

• In Raspberry Pi you can drop this in /etc/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant.conf and restart networking. Following that, the device should automatically load.

Here is the /etc/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant.conf config

       country=GB
       ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
       update_config=1
       network={
               ssid="uas-special"
               scan_ssid=1
               psk="askflayorcoreyforpassword"
               mode=0
               proto=WPA2
               key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
               pairwise=CCMP
               group=CCMP
               auth_alg=OPEN
               id_str="nameofthedevice"
               priority=1
       }